
“Based on data available on tourist arrivals and information gathered from stakeholders, it is expected that tourist arrivals for the year 2010 would be around 915,000, representing an increase of 5 per cent over the figure of 871,356 in 2009,” the Central Statistics Office said in a statement. The island’s tourism revenue for the year is forecasted at around 40.1 billion rupees ($1.3 billion), up over 12 per cent on the 35.6 billion generated in 2009, close to the amount of Rs41.2 billion recorded in 2008. Mauritius has 46 large …


