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

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the amount of how many tourists paid a visit to Caribbean

island

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over the period of 7 years starting from 2010.

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, it is clear from the graph that the aggregate arrivals to the

island

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experienced an upward trend.

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, more people stayed on the

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than on the cruise ships between 2010 and 2015 ,

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visitors leaned toward the latter from 2016 to the end of the period. Looking at the graph in detail, one can see that the figure for visitors lodging on the

island

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stood at 0.7

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guests in the first year.After that, the number witnessed

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increase to 1.5

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despite a slight decrease of 0.25

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in 2016. In

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of the

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for tourists accommodated on cruise ships, there was a mild fluctuation between 0.25 and 0.5

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in the proportion of cruise ship occupants, followed by a two-fold rise to 1

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in 2014. In the following three years,

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figures

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keeps growing to reach 1.5

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in 2017. The total of tourists

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the Caribbean

island

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began at 1

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in 2010,

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figure climbed rapidly to 3.5

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seven years later.