Tourist visits to Guatemala grew 5.6 percent last year, and income up by 6.2 percent

Tourist visits to Guatemala grew 5.6 percent last year compared with 2009, while the country’s tourism revenues increased 6.2 percent.

Some 1.88 million tourists visited the country last year compared with 1.78 million in 2009.

Half of the visitors were from Central American countries, 34 percent from North America, 10 percent from Europe, 3 percent from South America and the remaining 3 percent from other regions.

Original source: Efe