Anguilla tourism continues to surge with visitor arrivals in March up nearly 50%
Anguilla’s tourism sector continued its upward trend in March, with visitor arrivals 47.3% higher than the same period last year.… The post Anguilla tourism continues to surge with visitor arrivals in March up nearly 50% appeared first on Anguilla Focus | News.
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Anguilla’s tourism sector continued its upward trend in March, with visitor arrivals 47.3% higher than the same period last year.
This follows record-breaking performances in January and February, together marking the highest first-quarter total since records began in 1993.
The Anguilla Statistics Department recorded 29,325 arrivals in January and 27,365 in February.
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In the latest published data, statisticians revealed that the island welcomed 33,327 arrivals in March – an increase of more than 10,000 compared to the 2025 total of 22,625.
Of those, 26,546 arrived by sea while 6,781 came by air. Overall arrivals – which included both visitors and returning residents – reached 41,122.
The figures come on the back of a record 2025 for visitor arrivals, which totalled 229,734 through the island’s air and sea ports.
Stay-over vs day trippers
An increase in both stay-over visitors and day trippers accounted for the overall rise in March.
Tourists who stayed over for at least one night in Anguilla in March totalled 16,693 – an increase of 30.7% from 12,772 in 2025.
Stay-over visitors represented the largest share of visitor arrivals in March by a small margin at 50.1%. The overall length of stay from 2025 to 2026 decreased from an average of 6.4 to 5.9 days.
Meanwhile, the highest number of stay over visitors in March – 12,677 or 75.9% – came from the United States, and increase of 27.9% compared to 2025.
The remaining visitors came from the ‘Other European’ (not UK, Italy or Germany) and Canadian source markets at 1,247 or 7.5% and 962 or 5.8%.
Meanwhile, day trip visitors to Anguilla totalled 16,634 in March – an increase of 68.8% over 2025 when 9,853 visitors were recorded.
Most day trippers came from the USA at 10,839 or 65.2%, with 1,821 or 10.9% and 1,532 or 9.2% from the ‘Other European’ (not UK, Italy or Germany) and Canadian source markets.
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