Mauritius Pitches Digital Nomads to Reach Goal of 1 Million Tourists in 2022

As post-Covid tourists spend more and stay longer in Mauritius, the island destination sure isn’t complaining. But then there's the goal — the self-imposed target to attract one million tourists this year.

With much of its source markets closed, almost 80 percent of Mauritius’ inbound tourists were from Europe. The average length of stay among these tourists have now gone up from 10 days to 14 days. The international tourist spend also increased 25 percent, said Arvind Bundhun, director of the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority.

Mauritius, the tiny Indian Ocean island nation with just 1.3 million residents, has so far received almost 300,000 tourists from the time of reopening (October 2021 to mid-March 2022). The tourism arrivals for the first two months of 2022 stand at 93