14 Oct 2014

High visitor numbers for Guam in 2014

6:56 am on 14 October 2014

Guam has notched up its second consecutive year of a surge in visitor arrivals.

The US Naval base at Orote Peninsula, Guam

The US Naval base at Orote Peninsula, Guam Photo: Supplied

The Guam Visitors Bureau says overall arrivals for the 2014 fiscal year reached 1.34 million visitors.

These are the best figures for some time but the highest for the island was nearly 20 years ago, in 1996, when 1.4 million tourists arrived.

While Japanese tourists continue to make up the bulk of visitors, the increase is being put down to a new strategy to increase marketing of the island to China and South Korea.