Tourist arrivals register 10 percent growth in three quarters of 2014
27 Oct 2014, 2:39 PM
Tourist arrivals in the first three quarters of 2014 registered a 10.1 percent growth compared to the same period last year, reaching a total of 901,004 guests by the end of September, the Ministry of Tourism has revealed.
Visitors from Asia and Pacific countries accounted for 50 percent of all arrivals during the first nine months of the year.
However, the ministry noted in a statement last week that “the pace at which arrival from the region was increasing have slowed down since June.”
“While the region enjoyed a robust growth of 22.3 percent at the end of first two quarters of 2014, growth rate slowed down to 17.3 percent by the end of the third quarter of 2014,” the ministry explained.
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