The number of visitors traveling to Guernsey for leisure increased by more than 500 people compared to the first quarter of 2025. <\/p>\n
Almost 1,200 visitors were from France in the first quarter of 2026 \u2013 a 60% increase compared with the same period last year, and an 82% increase compared with 2023.<\/p>\n
Walker said: “For the tourism sector, rising bed nights and longer average stays translate directly into commercial opportunity. <\/p>\n
“The challenge now is to sustain this momentum through peak summer season and beyond.”<\/p>\n
There were 169 visitors who arrived by yacht – 23% fewer than three years ago – while there were no cruise ship visits at it was out of season.<\/p>\n
Of a total 26,631 visitors to Guernsey – up 2% compared to the first quarter of 2023 – 9,623 visitors said they were seeing friends or family.<\/p>\n
A further 3,845 visitors cited “other reasons”, with 18% of those mentioning “sport”. <\/p>\n
Figures showing how likely visitors were to recommend the island to a friend or relative reached its highest score to date, the States said.<\/p>\n
Accommodation occupancy also improved across the quarter, rising from 38% in January 2025 to 42% in January 2026, further reaching 49% by March 2026. <\/p>\n
The quarterly data bulletin provides information and statistics on travellers into and out of the island, as well as the accommodation they stayed in during their visit.<\/p>\n
January’s occupancy figure is the highest since records under the current methodology began, tourism leaders said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of visitors traveling to Guernsey for leisure increased by more than 500 people compared to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}