The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) noted that most Caribbean countries continue to show a strong recovery in tourist arrivals compared to many regions of the world
UNWTO data indicates that, globally, tourist arrivals through July 2022 were 57.1% of the same seven months in 2019, while arrivals in the Caribbean region as a whole reached 81, 9% of the total for the same period of 2019.
According to Tourism Analytics, the best performing destination in the Caribbean in 2022 was the US Virgin Islands, which as of August had recovered 128.8% of its visitor air traffic in 2019 over the same period, followed by Puerto Rico (as of July 2022) with 113.9% of its 2019 non-resident hotel registration numbers. Curacao and Aruba as of October were at 105.1% and 96.9%, respectively, of their stopover visitor numbers in 2019, while the Dominican Republic through September was at 106.9% of its 2019 non-resident visitor arrival numbers for the same nine months.
The worst-performing destination remains Cuba, which only recovered 32.3% of its 2019 international arrivals in the first nine months of 2022.