Visitor spending in Guernsey during 2019 has been estimated at £145.9m.
The results from a new Visitor Spend Survey Report found the average spend per visitor between April and September 2019 was £554.
This increased to £704 for staying leisure visitors - the highest value segment of the visitor market.
Cruise passenger spend in Guernsey, however, was estimated at £3.9m during 2019; an average spend per cruise passenger of £34.
Excluding cruise ship passengers and visiting yachtsmen, total visitors travelling by sea and air remained stable in 2019, with 281,581 visitors - 1,106 more than in 2018.
2019 has been a positive year for staying leisure visitor growth, the key target segment of Guernsey’s tourism market in terms of both visitor volume and spend value.
Following more than 20 years of decline, it is particularly encouraging to see the stabilisation and modest increase of staying leisure visitors, which started in 2015, continue into 2019.
Mike Hopkins, Director of Marketing & Tourism 29,452 visitors during 2019 were from France, a strong uplift of 45% compared with 2018. This equated to an additional 9,109 French visitors.
Visitors were estimated to have spent almost £146m last year on a mix of travel, accommodation, retail shopping, food, visiting, attractions, going on tours and so forth.
They contributed almost half of all air travel to and from Guernsey in 2019 and over two thirds of all sea ferry travel.
A robust and healthy visitor market is critical to the ongoing sustainability of the island’s transport links, and to the restaurants, attractions and shops that islanders so enjoy.
Deputy Joe Mooney, member of the Committee for Economic Development 