Above: Montserrat
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Montserrat may be small, but the Caribbean island is showing serious improvement in its tourism sector this year.
Tourist stop-over arrivals were up 29 percent through June, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization, with a total of 3,205 visitors in the first half of the year.
That was the largest jump of any Caribbean destination through the first half of the year, buoyed by an even strong summer, with a 38 percent increase.
Last year, the tiny island near Antigua received 7,310 stop-over arrivals, itself a 35.5 percent increase over 2011.
Still recovering from the impacts of a devastating volcano in 1995, Montserrat has been working to redevelop and cultivate its tourism industry.
It has a population of just over 5,100.