Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The line graph delineates the number of tourists visitors to a Caribbean island over an eight-year period,from 2010 to 2017.

Overall, there was a consistent upward trend in all categories with the total amount of visitors witnessing a remarkable upsurge.Visitors staying on the island persistently constituted the majority of total tourist count, and by 2017, this category had surged to roughly three million.

In 2010, the number of tourists staying on the island was approximately one million, which was twice the number of cruise ship visitors (0.5 million). However, this figure remained relatively intact until 2012, with a slight growth to around 0.5 million in 2011. Subsequently,from 2013 onwards, the island-based visitor amounts experienced a steady and considerably rise, culminating in a peak of approximately 2.75 million in 2017.

By contrast,tourists on cruise ships commence at a lower level of roughly 0.5 million in 2010. This figure saw a stable increase, reaching around 1.5 million by 2013, after which it remained stable at that level for the remainder of the period, with a slight increase to 1.25 million by 2017. Consequently, the total number of visitors, which stood at 1.5 million in 2010, rose consistently, reaching approximately 2.7 million in 2015, then stabilizing briefly before a final surge to 4 million in 2017, marking the highest point on the graph.