The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates how many people went on a holiday on one of the Caribbean islands from 2010 to 2017.

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, it can be seen that the total

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of visitors increased dramatically

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the years.

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, in 2010 most of the guests stayed on the island,

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in 2017 the majority of tourists stayed on a cruise ship. In the year 2010,

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particular Caribbean island had exactly 1

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visitors and

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raised to 1.5

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in 2012,

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proceeded with the same tendency, reaching above 2.5

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in 2016.

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, the peak was in 2017, when more than 3.5

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tourists visited the area. In 2010, nearly three-quarters of

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slept on the island, and the remaining quarter stayed on a cruise ship. After 2011 there was a slight growth in the

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of people, who preferred to rent something on the ground and

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count reached 1.5

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in the years between 2013 and 2017, with a slide decline in 2016 (1.25

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).

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the increasing

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of boat residents, which extended through the years and reached two

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in 2017, overtook the count.