The line graph depicts the number of tourists who visited a Caribbean island from 2010 to 2017, distinguishing between those who stayed on the island and those who resided on cruise ships.
Overall, the total volume of visitors rose consistently throughout the period, reaching its peak in 2017. While both categories increased, the number of cruise-ship tourists expanded far more dramatically and eventually overtook island-staying visitors.
At the start of the period, roughly one million people visited the island, of whom two-thirds stayed onshore. By 2013, total arrivals had doubled to about two million, largely driven by the steady rise in cruise-ship visitors. After a brief stabilization between 2015 and 2016, total tourism surged to approximately 3.5 million by 2017.
Visitors staying on the island climbed gradually to around 1.5 million in 2013 and then plateaued, whereas cruise-ship tourists continued to grow rapidly, soaring from 0.3 million in 2010 to about 2 million in 2017. This reversal shows that by the end of the period, cruise tourism had become the dominant form of accommodation.