Total Arrivals YTD		YTD	YTD	% Total Air Arrivals YTD
	2008	2009	# Diff.	% Diff.	2008	2009
USA	240,462	215,037	-25,425	-10.6%	79.4%	79.1%
Northeast	82,614	75,917	-6,697	-8.1%	27.3%	27.9%
Midwest	50,128	45,110	-5,018	-10.0%	16.6%	16.6%
Southeast	51,276	42,978	-8,298	-16.2%	16.9%	15.8%
Southwest	37,871	35,992	-1,879	-5.0%	12.5%	13.2%
West Coast	18,574	15,039	-3,535	-19.0%	6.1%	5.5%
Europe	21,271	19,117	-2,154	-10.1%	7.0%	7.0%
UK & Ireland	15,438	14,065	-1,373	-8.9%	5.1%	5.2%
Continental Europe	5,833	5,052	-781	-13.4%	1.9%	1.8%
Canada	18,544	17,254	-1,290	-7.0%	6.1%	6.3%
DOT Subtotal	280,277	251,408	-28,869	-10.3%	92.5%	92.4%
Other	22,602	20,550	-2,052	-9.1%	7.5%	7.6%
Total Air	302,879	271,958	-30,921	-10.2%
Total Cruise	1,553,053	1,520,372	-32,681	-2.1%

Notes:

Year: 2009

The CONTINENTAL EUROPE break includes visitor arrivals from all other countries outside of the UK & Ireland as follows:

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Vatican City

USA state breakdowns by region are as follows:

Every visitor recorded by the Cayman Islands Immigration Department has been counted as a Tourist Arrival in this report. Due to potential errors in the collection and recording of this data, there may be minor reporting errors within these summary statistics. All users of this data should be aware of the following:

175 records entered as tourists also had a reported country of permanent residence being Cayman Islands; 73 records entered as tourists also had a stated purpose as returning resident.

12,010 tourist arrival records, or 4% of the total tourist arrivals had unknown country information and had to be estimated by using the known citizenship information. Of the 259,948 visitor records in 2009 with known values for the country field, 95% of them had a country value that equaled the citizenship value.

19,136 tourist arrival records, or 9% of the total US tourist arrivals had unknown regional information and had to be estimated. Of this number, 7,446 records have data missing, as they have been estimated as US arrivals based on citizenship information, and 11,690 records are known to be US arrivals but are missing valid zip code information.