BIS Review 14/2010  3  Figure 3: Source market performance (Quarter-on-quarter % change in arrivals) % 30 20 10 0 ‐10 ‐20 ‐30  UK  US  Canada  Europe  CARICOM  Arrivals for the 2008/2009 winter season were 2.6% higher than for the similar period of 2007/2008.
Summer arrivals declined by around 9.6%, following a similar decrease of 5.4% during the comparable period one year earlier (Table 2). The decline in tourism was very general, and is reflected in hotel bookings, hotel occupancy rates, employment in the tourism sector, and visitor arrivals during the Crop Over season (Table 3).