Barbados received 39,284 stopovers visitors in January 2022, well up from the coronavirus ravaged January 2021 when the country attracted just 3,547 stopover arrivals but the 2021 numbers still lagged the performance in January 2019 of the 69,496 stopovers by 43.5 percent, data from Tourismanalytics.com reveals.
The January 2022 arrivals were little changed from the 39,356 stopovers received in December 2021.
According to Tourismanalytics.com, Barbados Statistical Service reported that Barbados Barbados received 15,718 landed cruise visitors in January 2022. Barbados reopened its ports to cruise ships in April 2021.
The country received 144,833 stopovers in 2021, just 20.3 percent of the 712,946 stopovers received in 2019 the Barbados Statistical Service is reported to have said. Barbados imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitor arrivals as of March 22, 2020, which remained in place until November 24, 2021. Barbados consequently received 3,547 stopover arrivals in January 2021.