2003 records highest tourist arrivals in 8 years
Guyana Chronicle
January 4, 2004
GUYANA in 2003 recorded the highest number of December visitors for the past eight years, but the amount of visitors for the entire year showed a decline when compared to crime-filled 2002.
According to official figures by the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), visitors in December last year amounted to 13, 684, the highest since 1994 when 15,137 came here.
However, the combined number of visitors for the entire year showed a decline over 2002, when 104,341 persons visited Guyana.
The figure for 2003 was put at 100,933.
Almost half of the 2003 visitors (49%) were from the USA, with Caribbean visitors accounting for the other significant portion (25%).
After December, August was the month with the second most number of visitors, the number being 11,241. (Neil Marks)