Mauritius touches the one million tourists!
Almasalla Arab Travel Portal News – January 13, 2014 | He has missed the 6894 total for Mauritius reaches the million tourists last year. The fault probably, this year, the poor performance of European countries (-1.5%) hit by the economic crisis
Nevertheless, with 993,106 tourists last year, Mauritius is better than 2012, an increase of 2.9%., Largely due to growth in Asian markets.]
The number of Chinese tourists, for example, with visited Mauritius has more than doubled to 41, 913 island As was the case in 2012, Europe was the source of a little more than half the total number of tourists in 2013, 547,046 ( 55%) against 555,528 (57%) the previous year. The decrease in 2013 was mixed with 1.5%. besides France, Italy with 31,205 visitors (-22%), Russian Federation (-23.3% to 14,905) and Spain (-10.9% to 8,441) and were the others having suffered significant declines.
These decreases were partially offset by the increase in UK and German markets with 98,017 (11.8%) and 60,530 tourists (9.7%) respectively. It also notes the rise of the Belgian and Danish markets, among others.
At the regional level, the main market, Reunion, decreased slightly with a total of 143,114 visitors against 144,340 in 2012. South Africa, the second largest market, did better, achieving an increase of 5.8% to 94,208. Madagascar (13,943), Seychelles (July 1187) and Kenya (2865) have also improved their performance.
The strongest growth was recorded by China (up 100.7% to 41,913), a result that allows the country to back heavily on India which was up 3.7% to 57,255. The authorities have set a target of 60,000 Chinese tourists in 2014.
Asian markets as a whole have reached a growth of 27% with a total of 132,554 arrivals. The 8161 tourists Handle (+511%) from the UAE and 3,174 arrivals (61.4%) of Malaysia Emirates.
Regarding other regions, official data show an increase 8.4% of Oceania with Australia (+8.1% to 18,393) in focus. Side of the Americas, arrivals decreased from 16 624 à 15 473. The U.S., Canadian and Brazilian markets all fell.
Record tourist arrivals in December 2013 shows an overall increase of only 1.4% with a total of 117,086. Europe, with 59,707 visitors, was down 1.2%, the French, Belgian, German, Italian, Dutch and Russian folding.
The Africa Region (40,878 arrivals) has not undergone evolution, rising conducted by the South African market (+2.9%) to compensate for the decline (-5.2%) noted that of the sister island.
Asia (12,100) grew 16.2% led by China (up 113.9%), while Oceania (2412) and the Americas (1905) have also improved their performance.
