Belize Tourism Board Releases Latest Figures

The Belize Tourism Board announced the official statistics in the tourism arrivals for Belize in 2011 this morning at the Phoenix Resort in San Pedro Town. According to the officials, the tourism sector has seen an upward trend in tourist arrivals to our shores. Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation is Manuel Heredia Junior.

According to Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia, since he took office in 2008, the numbers in tourism are better showing a twelve percent increase in overall arrivals including cruise and overnight arrivals. Major challenges were highlighted by Interim Director Javier Paredez.

Officials at the BTB stated that while the statistics show a slight slip in the overnight sector, improvement is being seen in the cruise sector with the exception of 2008. In addition, 2011 is only the second time that the overnight arrivals have exceeded 250,000 arrivals making it a record setting year from January to December.