By Aaron Humes: Belize, through the month of October, has welcomed 448,188 overnight travelers, a slight increase from 2024, according to Director of Tourism Evan Tillett of the Belize Tourism Board (BTB). In 2024, through the same time period, 446,563 visits were made, a difference of 1,625 or 0.4 percent.
Speaking with the press at a meeting this morning in Belize City, Tillett said that Belize is “on par” with 2024, which recorded the most overnight visitors ever with 547,000, ahead of 2019 with 503,000 before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
“…that’s given all of the issues that we have seen in the geopolitical space, where you have wars, trade wars, U.S. immigration policy, and so we have remained [neck-and-neck] with 2024,” Tillett noted.
Belize, once self-described as “Mother Nature’s Best Kept Secret,” has seen an explosion in popularity fueled in part by the rise of connections from major countries and cities, including the U.S. Tillett reported, “In 2010, we had just six airlines servicing our destinations and we were only directly connected to three countries and seven cities. If you fast forward to 2025, this is how it looks now, and this is indicative of the work we have done over the years and that we continue to do. From the time the [current] government came in, in 2020, our Minister indicated that we will take a very aggressive posture where it comes to airline development, because airline development is the lifeblood of tourism – without connectivity, you can’t get the tourist to the destination. And so in 2025, we currently have, are connected to 23 cities, seven countries and we have now 14 airlines serving our destination…”
Belize also welcomed more than 700,000 cruise ship passengers between Harvest Caye and Fort Street Tourism Village, an increase of 5.4 percent, split about four to one between the two docking facilities, and so is “holding its own,” Tillett said, competing with bigger mass tourism destinations such as Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
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By Aaron Humes: Belize, through the month of October, has welcomed 448,188 overnight travelers, a slight increase from 2024, according to Director of Tourism Evan Tillett of the Belize Tourism Board (BTB). In 2024, through the same time period, 446,563 visits were made, a difference of 1,625 or 0.4 percent. Speaking with the press at
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