The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017.

The graph illustrates the number of people travelling to a specific Caribbean island from 2010 to 2017. The unit is measured in millions.

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, it is obvious that the Caribbean island’s total sum of guests increased over the course of 7 years, hitting 3.5

million

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. Despite the tourists preferred staying on the land at the beginning of the report, there was a shift and

at the end

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of the analysis, they were fancy to live on the cruise ships

instead

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. Focusing on the incomers staying on board, the amount of visitors doubled after a year from 0.25

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in 2010 to 0.5

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in 2011.

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, there was a significant plummet in 2012 back to its initial rate in 2010. After the dramatic plunge in 2012, the number of visitors living onboard gradually rose over the period to 2

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tourists in 2017 which surpassed the number of people staying on the land. Moving on to the incomers staying on the island, it started with nearly 0.75

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tourists in 2010 and moderately surged until 2013, hitting its all-time high of 1.5

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visitors.

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, the trend flattened out over the period of 2013 to 2015.

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there was a small drop of 0.25

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in 2016, it went back to its retained rate of 1.5

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incomers.