1.   An analysis by the Tourism Authority of Thailand indicates visitor arrivals were affected by several months of haze in Southeast Asia as well as the regional economic crisis.

2.   Before the crisis, Indonesia had been enjoying double digit growth in visitor arrivals and other tourism measurements, he said.

3.   Growth in visitor arrivals also risks increasing the number of problems related to security and safety for visitors.

4.   Impact from the regional financialturmoil which started in July, he says, was mostly confined to re-exportsand visitor arrivals from selected regional economies during the thirdquarter.

5.   In Hong Kong, a drop in visitor arrivals had also affected the occupancy of hotels, including Shangri-La.

6.   Jamaica fared better than other Caribbean countries as to visitor arrivals.

7.   More hotels are expected to be given the same death sentence as room rates and visitor arrivals keep dropping while operational costs skyrocket.

8.   Short-term visitor arrivals includes tourists, people visiting relatives, and people attending conferences.

9.   Visitor arrivals have recovered quickly.

10.   Visitor arrivals declined in both September and October after the terrorist attacks, which sent shockwaves through the global tourism and airline sectors.