And while the primary or agricultural sector continues to lag, the tertiary, or services sector is performing well.

That's mainly tourism and the Statistical Institute gave an overview of the tourist numbers for the second quarter:

Christopher Hulse, Statistician

"For overnight, we went from 106.3, thousands of arrivals to 114.5. That's an increase of 7.7%. And then at cruise, we went from 124.9 in quarter two of 2022, thousands of arrivals to 183.1, thousands of arrivals for quarter two 2023. And that is a 46.6% increase."

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