Growth recorded in the tourism sector

Bridgetown.

Barbados recorded a five percent growth in the tourism sector for the first half of the year.

According the Central Bank Report on the country's economic performance for January to June 2011, the winter tourist season saw a turnaround in arrivals after two years of decline.

The report said that tourists spent less while vacationing on the island and there was therefore, no build up in the foreign exchange reserves in the first half of the year,