Antigua and Barbuda continues to be an attractive destination to visit

Antigua and Barbuda remains on course to establish new records for tourism
arrivals by both air and sea by the end of the year.
Tourism Minister, Charles Fernandez informed his Cabinet colleagues of the latest
figures for arrivals by air from January to April this year, that have already
exceeded the figures for the same period for 2019, the record year for tourist
arrivals into the country.
Cabinet Spokesperson Lionel Hurst has credited the great marketing of the staff at
the Antigua Barbuda Tourism Authority for the record number of tourism arrivals
for the first quarter of the year.
The Minister of Tourism reported that a new record for air arrivals in April 2024
has been achieved.
126,000 air arrivals were recorded for the period of January to April 2024;
surpassing the previous record of 118,000 air arrivals during the same period in
2019.
These figures do not include the arrivals from the 4th International Small Island
Developing States (SIDS) Conference and the ICC T20 World Cup arrivals, owing
to both events occurring during May and June 2024 respectively.
Hurst says this is welcomed news for the country.
“We have a great marketing team, led by Colin C. James, who has been very good
at exciting the marketplace about Antigua and Barbuda. Additionally, there has
been an accumulation of demand, unmet demand, for vacation and holidays in the
post-COVID era and what we are seeing is this pent-up demand being expressed
by way of the number of bookings that the hotels and the airlines are receiving. So
pent-up demand is one, but we have also been very clever with our marketing.
Once again, we wish to thank the marketing team for all their efforts,” Hurst stated.
According to Hurst the Tourism Minister, Charles Fernandez and his team
recognized that this is a special period for Antigu and Barbuda in the post COVID
period and their efforts have paid huge dividends to Antigua and Barbuda. “We
have to congratulate the minister and team for a job well-done!” he declared.