Anguilla Posts a Record First Half of 81,907 Stayover Visitors

First-half stayover arrivals rose 19.9% from a year earlier, an added 13,620 visitors and the island's strongest opening half on record.

Anguilla recorded 81,907 stayover visitors in the first half of 2026, up 19.9% from 68,287 a year earlier, according to the island's Statistics Department. The gain of 13,620 visitors is the territory's strongest opening half on record.

A small territory running high-yield tourism beside its .ai domain income shows how the least-watched economies are compounding fastest when a single niche lands.

Source: Anguilla Statistics Department, via Caribbean National Weekly (September 16, 2026).