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.

Overall

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

million

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

at the end

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

instead

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

million

in 2010 to 0.5

million

in 2011.

However

, 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

million

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

million

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

million

visitors.

Thereafter

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

Although

there was a small drop of 0.25

million

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

million

incomers.