the graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular caribbean island between 2010 and 107.

The line graph depicts how many travellers made their way to one of the Caribbean islands during a 7-year period, starting from the year 2010. Clearly, there was an upward trend in both cruise ship and island visiting numbers, with the total indexes progressing steadily. Noticeably, there was a bit wilder fluctuation in the number of those who picked an island stay, expanding from roughly 0.7

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and ending up at 1.5

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. Two periods of level-off were observed: 2010-2011 and 2013-2015, constituting 0.7 and 1.5

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guests respectively. The latter one was followed by a hardly significant dip.

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, cruise ship visitors had shown a bigger interest in Caribbean trips by 2017, even outnumbering their island counterparts by 1

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their figures were minimal in 2010 and 2012, amounting to around 0.3

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each, they witnessed quite a steady increase

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, it had risen more than threefold by the end of the period given, starting at only one million. In the first 5 years, the figures were growing gradually until approximately 2.7

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, which was followed by a year of stability before soaring to namely 3.5

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in the end.