Located north of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south of Martinique, the island of Saint Lucia is one of the Windward Islands, and it relies heavily on tourism. In 2023, a little more than one million tourists visited this Caribbean destination, which shows a substantial increase from the nearly 737 thousand recorded in 2022.

International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Saint Lucia LC: International Tourism: Receipts data was reported at 770.000 USD mn in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 810.000 USD mn for 2015. Saint Lucia LC: International Tourism: Receipts data is updated yearly, averaging 299.000 USD mn from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2016, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 810.000 USD mn in 2015 and a record low of 210.000 USD mn in 2002. Saint Lucia LC: International Tourism: Receipts data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s St. Lucia – Table LC.World Bank.WDI: Tourism Statistics. International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; World Tourism Organization, Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files.; Gap-filled total;

In 2023, international tourists visiting Saint Lucia spent over 3.1 billion East Caribbean dollars in total. This figure represents an increase versus the previous year's spending which was 2.95 billion East Caribbean dollars.

Contribution of travel and tourism to employment (% of GDP) of Saint Lucia rose by 2.82% from 41.8 % in 2018 to 43.0 % in 2019. Since the 3.69% decline in 2010, contribution of travel and tourism to employment (% of GDP) soared by 20.32% in 2019. The share of Travel & Tourism spending or employment in the equivalent economy-wide concept in the published national income accounts or labour market statistics. Visitor exports are compared with exports of all goods and services Domestic Travel & Tourism spending is compared with GDP Government individual Travel & Tourism spending is compared with total government spending Internal Travel & Tourism consumption is compared with total internal consumption (i.e. total domestic spending plus total export) Leisure Travel & Tourism contribution to GDP is compared with total GDP Business Travel & Tourism contribution to GDP is compared with total GDP Travel & Tourism capital investment spending is compared with all fixed investment spending

United States Visitor Arrivals: Caribbean: St. Lucia data was reported at 1,053.000 Person in Jan 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,871.000 Person for Dec 2024. United States Visitor Arrivals: Caribbean: St. Lucia data is updated monthly, averaging 1,037.000 Person from Jan 2000 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 301 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,178.000 Person in Aug 2024 and a record low of 0.000 Person in Apr 2020. United States Visitor Arrivals: Caribbean: St. Lucia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Travel and Tourism Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.Q001: Visitor Arrivals.

In 2022, the contribution of the travel and tourism sector to the total employment in the Caribbean region was nearly 15 percent. Nevertheless, only seven out of the 22 listed Caribbean islands registered percentages below that average that year. In contrast, the travel and tourism sector contributed more than 90 percent of Antigua and Barbuda's total employment, the highest percentage in the region that year. Aruba recorded a share of tourism employment of over 85 percent.

Travel and tourism direct contribution to GDP (LCU) of Saint Lucia surged by 8.09% from 1.1 billion LCU in 2018 to 1.2 billion LCU in 2019. Since the 4.87% decline in 2016, travel and tourism direct contribution to GDP (LCU) leapt by 13.07% in 2019.

Indonesia Visitors Arrivals by Residence: St. Lucia data was reported at 4.000 Person in Dec 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5.000 Person for Nov 2024. Indonesia Visitors Arrivals by Residence: St. Lucia data is updated monthly, averaging 2.000 Person from Jan 2017 (Median) to Dec 2024, with 96 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 48.000 Person in Dec 2018 and a record low of 0.000 Person in May 2022. Indonesia Visitors Arrivals by Residence: St. Lucia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Indonesia. The data is categorized under Indonesia Premium Database’s Tourism Sector – Table ID.QA003: Visitors Arrivals: by Country of Residence. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Tourism expenditure in other countries of Saint Lucia sank by 69.57% from 92,000,000 current US dollars in 2019 to 28,000,000 current US dollars in 2020. Since the 1.19% growth in 2018, tourism expenditure in other countries plummeted by 67.06% in 2020. Series 3.4

Martinique is a French overseas territory located between the Caribbean islands of Dominica and St. Lucia. According to the UNWTO, each international tourist visiting Martinique in 2019 spent on average around 85 U.S. dollars per day during their stay, which represents a year-on-year decrease of 10 percent. Similarly, Martinique's inbound tourism volume declined in 2019.

Chile Residents Departures: America: Caribbean: St. Lucia data was reported at 2.000 Person in Jan 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 13.000 Person for Dec 2024. Chile Residents Departures: America: Caribbean: St. Lucia data is updated monthly, averaging 2.000 Person from Jan 2008 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 205 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17.000 Person in Oct 2023 and a record low of 0.000 Person in Nov 2024. Chile Residents Departures: America: Caribbean: St. Lucia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Tourism Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Chile – Table CL.Q004: Resident Departures. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Travel and tourism direct contribution to GDP growth of Saint Lucia sank by 3,951.69% from -0.16 % in 2018 to 6.18 % in 2019. Since the 284.50% jump in 2017, travel and tourism direct contribution to GDP growth plummeted by 388.82% in 2019.

Indonesia Visitors Arrivals: Annual: America: St. Lucia data was reported at 86.000 Person in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 39.000 Person for 2023. Indonesia Visitors Arrivals: Annual: America: St. Lucia data is updated yearly, averaging 38.500 Person from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2024, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 87.000 Person in 2018 and a record low of 1.000 Person in 2021. Indonesia Visitors Arrivals: Annual: America: St. Lucia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Indonesia. The data is categorized under Indonesia Premium Database’s Tourism Sector – Table ID.QA004: Visitors Arrivals: by Country of Residence: Annual.

Domestic travel and tourism spending (LCU) of Saint Lucia increased by 4.31% from 0.2 billion LCU in 2018 to 0.2 billion LCU in 2019. Since the 9.83% drop in 2017, domestic travel and tourism spending (LCU) surged by 8.05% in 2019. The country's local currency (eg £, €, etc) in billion, at current prices.

Abstract

The RFS in Caribbean was conducted in 13 countries between March and November 2020 and focused on the tourism industry and the restaurant, hotel and tour and transport companies. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, data collection was done both remotely and in-person depending on the restrictions in place and preference of respondent. The countries covered included Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos. The survey in the Caribbean focused on impacts of recent disasters to have affected the region, including Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Tropical Storm Dorian, etc. (see Table 2 for country and disaster list). The data collection was financed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) with the objective of better understanding how natural hazards – large and small, affect the tourism industry in the Caribbean. The data informed the 360° Resilience: A Guide to Prepare the Caribbean for a New Generation of Shocks (Rozenberg, et al. 2021) to make recommendations on how Caribbean countries can invest resources to strengthen resilience in the region.

This project was a collaborative effort between GFDRR and Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice (GPURL).

Geographic coverage

Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos.

Analysis unit

• Firm level

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample was drawn to achieve representativeness at the country level as well as the regional level. In the Dominican Republic, sampling was done in a way to also achieve representativeness in 4 provinces in the country. Since there was no comprehensive list of firms operating in the tourism industry readily available to sample from, the firm hired to collect data created a sampling frame from scratch by contacting relevant organizations and websites. To be able to say something about different sectors within the tourism industry, the sampling was stratified by three sectors, including hotels and accommodation, restaurants and bars, and a third sector including rental, taxi and tour companies, attractions and souvenir shops (referred to in this note as hotel, restaurant and tour/transport sectors). The sample selection was then completed in one stage in which firms were selected by using a systematic random sampling method from each stratum.

Once the firm is selected for inclusion in the survey, every effort was made to interview the firm. The survey response rate was low due to the COVID pandemic, and replacements were done. Replacements were drawn from the same stratum. Due to restrictions in some countries, firms were not reachable, even after several attempts and replacements had been done. To compensate for low response rate in some countries, the sample size in other countries was increased. As a result, The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos have lower than expected sample size so caution should be applied when interpreting country level results from these two countries. See Technical Note for more detail on composition of final sample.

The final sample contains a total of 1413 firms across the 13 countries. Dominican Republic has the largest number of observations because the objective of sampling was also to achieve province level representativeness, in addition to country level representativeness, in 4 providences that rely heavily on tourism.

To make the survey estimates representative of the population, it is necessary to apply weights to selected firms during analysis. Regional weights (weight) are applied to statistics representing regional values while country weights (weight_i) are applied to all country level statistics.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

• Respondent characteristics • Firm characteristics • Clients • Infrastructure dependence and disruptions o Water o Electricity o Communication (phone and internet) o Road and boat • Suppliers • Disaster preparedness • Impacts of recent disasters (see Table 2) • Impacts of disease outbreaks (Zika and COVID-19) • Financial accounts

Cleaning operations

The following data editing was done for anonymization purpose:
• Precise location data, such as GPS coordinates, and subnational administrative divisions (admin 1) were dropped • Identifying and contact information, such as firm name, respondent’s name, supplier names, phone number and email contact, were dropped • Number of fulltime workers above 100 was recoded to “above 100 fulltime workers” to mitigate re-identification of the largest firms. See technical note for more details on anonymization.