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Vanuatu

East Asia & Pacific

Vanuatu is a tourism destination in East Asia & Pacific. This dashboard presents the best available tourism indicators and historical arrivals data from official sources.

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International Tourist Arrivals

30K

Latest verified value · 2022

International Tourism Receipts

$45.9M

Latest verified value · 2022

TCTI Destination Profile

Tourism destination under pressure

Vanuatu has experienced a decline in international arrivals. This profile is calculated from the best available annual and monthly tourism records currently held by TCTI.

Executive tourism profile for Vanuatu

Profile confidence

50

/ 100

Confidence reflects the intelligence modules currently supported by compatible source data.

Growth profile

Declining

Seasonality profile

Not yet available

What this means

  • Declining arrivals may reflect external shocks, changing demand, capacity constraints, or destination-specific pressures.

The destination profile combines TCTI's available growth and seasonality intelligence. Confidence reflects whether both compatible annual-arrivals and monthly-tourist-night datasets are available.

Tourism Intelligence

Executive summary

A concise interpretation of the strongest official tourism records currently available for Vanuatu.

2 indicators available
East Asia & Pacific
Lower middle income

Vanuatu is a tourism destination in East Asia & Pacific. This dashboard presents the best available tourism indicators and historical arrivals data from official sources.

International tourist arrivals were 30K in 2022. International tourism receipts were $45.9M in 2022.

The figures shown here are drawn from UN Tourism. Reporting years may differ between indicators because TCTI displays the strongest verified or published value currently available for each measure.

Derived Intelligence

Tourism growth

How international tourist arrivals changed between 1995 and 2022.

TCTI Growth Insight

Declining

Confidence

95%

Vanuatu's international tourist arrivals decreased by 63.4% between 1995 and 2022. This is equivalent to an average annual growth rate of -3.7%. The sharpest annual decline was 67.8% in 2020.

Total growth

-63.4%

1995 to 2022

Average annual growth

-3.7%

Compound annual growth rate

Starting arrivals

0.1M

Reported in 1995

Latest arrivals

0M

Reported in 2022

Largest annual increase

+29%

Change recorded in 2012

Largest annual decline

-67.8%

Change recorded in 2020

What this means

  • Long-term growth trends can indicate changes in destination popularity.
  • Growth should be interpreted alongside seasonality, visitor spending, and tourism dependence.

Growth is calculated using the earliest and latest available international arrivals data held by TCTI. Results may reflect gaps or methodological changes in the underlying series.

Key Tourism Indicators

Tourism performance at a glance

Verified tourism indicators currently available for Vanuatu. Reporting years may differ by dataset.

2022

International Tourist Arrivals

30K

UN Tourism · 2022

International Tourist Arrivals

VerifiedReporting lag
2022

International Tourism Receipts

$45.9M

UN Tourism · 2022

International Tourism Receipts

VerifiedReporting lag

Rankings & Comparisons

How Vanuatu compares

Positions use each country's best currently available official record. Years can differ, so use these as directional benchmarks rather than synchronized league tables.

Data Availability

33% dashboard coverage

2 of 6 dashboard indicators currently have usable official data for Vanuatu.

0 current2 reporting lag0 historical

Available

  • ✓International Tourist Arrivals · 2022 · Reporting lag
  • ✓International Tourism Receipts · 2022 · Reporting lag

Not Yet Available

  • ○Tourist Nights
  • ○Tourism Direct Share of GDP
  • ○Tourism Employment Share
  • ○Resident Tourism Trips

Official Sources

Data sources used for Vanuatu

These organizations and datasets provide the indicators currently displayed on this country dashboard.

✓

UN Tourism

Latest displayed year: 2022

Official

Indicators

  • • International Tourist Arrivals
  • • International Tourism Receipts

Datasets

  • International Tourist Arrivals
  • International Tourism Receipts
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Historical Trend

International arrivals over time

Annual international tourist arrivals reported for Vanuatu. Values are shown in millions.

Source: UN TourismYears: 1995–2022Annual data

Dataset: International Tourist Arrivals

About the Data

Best available official data

TCTI evaluates available tourism records by reporting status, year, source priority, official-source status, and publication history. The dashboard displays the strongest available record while preserving historical observations and alternative sources in the database.