Nassau – Air arrivals were down by 20,000 visitors up to the month of April, with only the Family Islands registering the kind of growth that brings much needed jobs and economic change to the country.
While total arrivals – fueled by cruise visitors – were up by 11.5 percent over last year, air arrivals were down by 4.4 percent, Ministry of Tourism statistics recently revealed.
The Bahamas recorded around two million total visitors for the first four months of the year, with air arrivals to the country at 449,757 from the 470,468 seen during the same period in 2010.
The numbers paint a startling bleak picture for Grand Bahama in particular, with air arrivals up to the month of April down by 20 percent. That’s just around 10,000 fewer air arrivals than seen in the same year-ago period. The drop off in that category was only made up by a 38 percent growth in the cruise sector.
