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

The line graph compares the numbers of visitors staying on

ships

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and going on the

island

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in a Caribbean

island

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between 2010 and 2017.

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, during the given period, there was an upward trend in the

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of visitors visiting

this

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island

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. Before the middle of 2015, the

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of tourists staying on the

island

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was consistently higher than the figure for those on cruise

ships

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. In 2010, there were 1

million

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people

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visiting

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Caribbean

island

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, with 0.75

million

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on

ships

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and 0.25

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on land. In the next few years, both figures steadily increased, but the gap between the two numbers gradually narrowed to about 0.5

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. In 2015, the

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of total visitors came to approximately 2.75

million

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.

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year, the

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of

people

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who chose not to go on the

island

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exceeded its on-

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counterpart. In the next year, there was not a big change in terms of the total visitor's

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, but the

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of

people

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staying on

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was slightly higher than

people

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staying on the

island

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. In 2017, both figures saw a sharp rise to 2

million

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(stayed on

ships

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) and 1.5

million

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(stayed on the

island

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).