Arrivals in September 2019 and 2022 | ||||||||
Selected markets | Mauritius | Maldives | Seychelles | Sri Lanka | ||||
2019 | 2022 | 2019 | 2022* | 2019 | 2022 | 2019 | 2022 | |
France | 15,115 | 14,145 | 1,924 | 1,792 | 2,266 | 2,651 | 2,929 | 1,201 |
UK | 12,924 | 12,542 | 7,876 | 10,409 | 2,305 | 1,843 | 8,345 | 2,872 |
Germany | 11,979 | 12,092 | 8,982 | 11,449 | 5,251 | 4,143 | 6,396 | 2,149 |
South Africa | 13,185 | 8,795 | 887 | n/a | 1,318 | 890 | 240 | 34 |
Reunion | 7,489 | 4,500 | n/a | n/a | 227 | 109 | n/a | |
India | 4,504 | 3,210 | 11,265 | 19,707 | 736 | 322 | 28,917 | 6,493 |
Switzerland | 3,123 | 2,427 | 1,804 | 2,357 | 1,324 | 1,089 | 1,304 | 583 |
Italy | 3,635 | 2,400 | 5,213 | 5,639 | 1,815 | 1,517 | 1,016 | 352 |
Saudi Arabia | 2,056 | 1,770 | 2,640 | 1,865 | 126 | 126 | 985 | 118 |
Belgium | 1,558 | 1,726 | 478 | n/a | 224 | 312 | 1,082 | 316 |
Spain | 2,171 | 1,469 | 4,046 | 4,626 | 379 | 418 | 1,930 | 1,091 |
Austria | 906 | 1,187 | 877 | n/a | 462 | 515 | 502 | 152 |
USA | 656 | 755 | 3,819 | 6,350 | 874 | 1,046 | 2,830 | 991 |
Russia | 650 | 573 | 4,837 | 23,598 | 582 | 1,879 | 1,638 | 1,553 |
Israel | 231 | 550 | 1,287 | n/a | 200 | 1,866 | 1,576 | 826 |
Australia | 2,086 | 500 | 3,570 | 137 | 149 | 6,895 | 2,309 | |
Canada | 483 | 413 | 700 | 161 | 137 | 2,438 | 1,552 | |
Others | 18,086 | 12,033 | 57,414 | 48,118 | 6,473 | 5,415 | 39,552 | 7,210 |
All countries | 100,837 | 81,087 | 117,619 | 135,910 | 24,860 | 24,427 | 108,575 | 29,802 |
* up to 05 Oct 2022
Cumulative Tourist Arrivals, January to September, 2019 – 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
Selected markets* | Mauritius | Maldives | Seychelles | Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022* | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
France | 201,717 | 78,775 | 1,942 | 145,366 | 44,722 | 22,423 | 16,205 | 36,147 | 30,964 | 11,694 | 7,185 | 32,929 | 72,559 | 24,838 | 1,457 | 29,436 |
UK | 100,051 | 22,433 | 1,341 | 96,163 | 90,965 | 34,418 | 18,746 | 133,280 | 21,283 | 5,716 | 712 | 16,203 | 152,991 | 55,455 | 2,142 | 68,527 |
Germany | 88,796 | 35,929 | 407 | 66,344 | 93,727 | 29,040 | 53,460 | 97,145 | 49,516 | 20,740 | 8,308 | 31,277 | 93,886 | 34,507 | 2,704 | 42,508 |
South Africa | 85,194 | 19,101 | 236 | 65,698 | 6,457 | 1,530 | 12,205 | n/a | 8,195 | 1,899 | 347 | 6,214 | 4,473 | 1,364 | 77 | 1,061 |
Reunion | 98,607 | 30,517 | 179 | 36,777 | n/a | n/a | 4,038 | 1,578 | 44 | 2,555 | n/a | |||||
India | 57,054 | 12,498 | 716 | 26,029 | 115,507 | 35,318 | 200,449 | 172,911 | 10,339 | 2,859 | 212 | 3,286 | 241,666 | 89,357 | 10,060 | 86,625 |
Switzerland | 25,934 | 7,259 | 140 | 15,671 | 23,157 | 9,356 | 13,854 | 24,452 | 10,425 | 2,964 | 3,562 | 10,726 | 22,248 | 6,389 | 648 | 10,291 |
Saudi Arabia | 19,779 | 4,978 | 24 | 15,458 | 21,521 | 7,428 | 30,339 | 27,723 | 1,301 | 542 | 3,756 | 1,738 | 13,350 | 4,755 | 83 | 4,945 |
Italy | 27,705 | 7,517 | 77 | 14,236 | 97,375 | 45,241 | 8,101 | 69,707 | 21,649 | 2,791 | 951 | 13,963 | 26,322 | 8,603 | 280 | 5,144 |
Belgium | 11,601 | 2,250 | 96 | 11,494 | 5,647 | 2,176 | 2,817 | n/a | 2,284 | 582 | 1,653 | 3,189 | 12,138 | 3,371 | 174 | 5,099 |
Austria | 11,847 | 6,325 | 44 | 10,160 | 15,400 | 7,036 | 9,297 | n/a | 6,756 | 2,014 | 2,178 | 5,988 | 10,997 | 4,300 | 257 | 4,259 |
UAE | 11,435 | 1,549 | 199 | 10,032 | 7,842 | 3,967 | 11,547 | n/a | 19,393 | 5,597 | 16,384 | 12,925 | 2,833 | 352 | 20 | 943 |
Czech Rep. | 10,764 | 6,047 | 49 | 8,914 | 9,816 | 4,691 | 13,091 | n/a | 3,869 | 1,853 | 1,762 | 3,587 | 14,439 | 7,599 | 216 | 6,316 |
Spain | 10,817 | 1,449 | 95 | 8,682 | 26,438 | 4,436 | 25,910 | 31,990 | 3,444 | 633 | 2,038 | 3,320 | 18,559 | 3,385 | 389 | 10,357 |
Madagascar | 11,640 | 2,537 | 74 | 6,893 | n/a | 573 | 107 | 5 | 270 | n/a | ||||||
Netherlands | 12,960 | 2,185 | 45 | 6,353 | 9,638 | 2,704 | 2,874 | n/a | 2,615 | 753 | 747 | 2,620 | 32,263 | 8,656 | 438 | 9,823 |
Russia | 7,647 | 5,133 | 266 | 5,910 | 58,306 | 31,489 | 171,308 | 146,806 | 8,549 | 5,026 | 20,169 | 20,617 | 48,692 | 49,397 | 1,253 | 51,300 |
Poland | 7,784 | 4,133 | 60 | 5,364 | 13,788 | 5,827 | 16,226 | n/a | 4,815 | 1,272 | 3,324 | 5,416 | 13,234 | 11,908 | 155 | 13,562 |
USA | 7,490 | 2,572 | 148 | 5,315 | 39,013 | 11,212 | 35,324 | 57,275 | 7,569 | 2,619 | 3,373 | 6,790 | 49,180 | 16,842 | 1,489 | 15,250 |
Denmark | 5,298 | 2,432 | 9 | 5,284 | 8,218 | 3,500 | 2,253 | n/a | 1,217 | 461 | 404 | 1,605 | 14,025 | 4,905 | 171 | 6,150 |
Romania | 3,322 | 2,647 | 25 | 3,919 | 6,500 | 4,105 | 12,743 | n/a | 1,769 | 762 | 1,641 | 3,011 | 3,813 | 1,724 | 73 | 2,650 |
Canada | 5,905 | 1,753 | 67 | 3,707 | 8,459 | 2,732 | 4,320 | n/a | 1,232 | 543 | 190 | 775 | 36,779 | 12,436 | 1,525 | 20,608 |
Portugal | 3,948 | 811 | 46 | 3,540 | 8,537 | 2,382 | 10,985 | n/a | 1,103 | 191 | 649 | 1,680 | 3,706 | 1,602 | 44 | 1,485 |
Sweden | 8,540 | 5,728 | 7 | 3,062 | 8,256 | 4,652 | 2,647 | n/a | 1,999 | 1,292 | 195 | 1,635 | 15,415 | 7,061 | 169 | 3,576 |
Norway | 4,296 | 1,171 | 7 | 2,949 | 4,303 | 1,509 | 514 | n/a | 1,171 | 376 | 104 | 1,191 | 10,860 | 3,019 | 245 | 4,986 |
Australia | 13,338 | 3,044 | 43 | 2,710 | 30,066 | 6,244 | 2,745 | n/a | 1,264 | 308 | 114 | 655 | 65,578 | 20,283 | 231 | 20,271 |
Turkey | 2,221 | 972 | 31 | 2,638 | 7,463 | 2,547 | 8,020 | n/a | 1,397 | 438 | 669 | 1,287 | 2,977 | 2,121 | 72 | 1,075 |
Israel | 1,760 | 1,735 | 30 | 2,367 | 7,019 | 1,330 | 8,495 | n/a | 3,073 | 2,182 | 9,179 | 11,039 | 11,117 | 3,556 | 306 | 6,764 |
Hungary | 2,912 | 2,001 | 11 | 1,735 | 6,853 | 4,877 | 8,632 | n/a | 2,602 | 1,562 | 1,250 | 4,172 | 3,001 | 1,588 | 36 | 1,822 |
Ukraine | 2,602 | 1,515 | 62 | 1,656 | 9,309 | 5,055 | 28,318 | n/a | 1,963 | 1,167 | 3,353 | 3,002 | 21,563 | 16,776 | 2,742 | 13,977 |
China | 34,294 | 5,017 | 264 | 1,170 | 230,349 | 33,972 | 1,345 | n/a | 4,832 | 1,366 | 77 | 202 | 123,220 | 26,147 | 1,776 | 3,021 |
Singapore | 1,944 | 252 | 19 | 474 | 10,407 | 2,033 | 328 | n/a | 299 | 78 | 25 | 130 | 9,870 | 2,545 | 53 | 2,321 |
Japan | 1,613 | 377 | 19 | 253 | 33,367 | 8,338 | 462 | n/a | 500 | 106 | 37 | 68 | 22,692 | 6,644 | 85 | 1,684 |
Qatar | 280 | 35 | 5 | 203 | 3,606 | 705 | 5,268 | n/a | 3,395 | 652 | 2,602 | 2,567 | 839 | 129 | 3 | 211 |
Maldives | 299 | 8 | 0 | 36 | 87 | 35 | 30 | 57 | 41,461 | 9,407 | 949 | 11,867 | ||||
Others | 72,248 | 22,927 | 2,677 | 41,770 | 189,659 | 59,537 | 132,034 | 417,108 | 29,343 | 10,511 | 9,597 | 24,515 | 159,566 | 56,290 | 7,602 | 58,318 |
All markets | 973,642 | 305,612 | 9,460 | 638,332 | 1,251,690 | 401,810 | 870,862 | 1,214,544 | 274,823 | 93,269 | 106,826 | 241,204 | 1,376,312 | 507,311 | 37,924 | 526,232 |
*January to 05 Oct 2022
Top 5 Markets, Cumulative January to September 2019 & 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Mauritius | Maldives | Seychelles | Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||
2019 | 2022 | 2019 | 2022* | 2019 | 2022 | 2019 | 2022 | ||||||||
Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share | Markets | Share |
France | 20.7% | France | 22.8% | China | 18.4% | India | 14.2% | Germany | 18.0% | France | 13.7% | India | 17.6% | India | 16.5% |
UK | 10.3% | UK | 15.1% | India | 9.2% | Russia | 12.1% | France | 11.3% | Germany | 13.0% | UK | 11.1% | UK | 13.0% |
Reunion | 10.1% | Germany | 10.4% | Italy | 7.8% | UK | 11.0% | Italy | 7.9% | Russia | 8.5% | China | 9.0% | Russia | 9.7% |
Germany | 9.1% | South Africa | 10.3% | Germany | 7.5% | Germany | 8.0% | UK | 7.7% | UK | 6.7% | Germany | 6.8% | Germany | 8.1% |
South Africa | 8.8% | Reunion | 5.8% | UK | 7.3% | Italy | 5.7% | UAE | 7.1% | Italy | 5.8% | France | 5.3% | France | 5.6% |
Source: Statistics Mauritius | Source: Ministry of Tourism | Source: National Bureau of Statistics | Source: Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority |