| Table 2: Construction of the Tourism Penetration Index, Destination Scores and Rankings | |||||||||
| Impact Indices (b) | |||||||||
| Island | Spend/Pop | Density | Rooms | Spending | Density | Rooms | TPI scores (c) | ||
| (US$) | 1,000(a) | Km2 | |||||||
| MOST TOURISM DEVELOPED | |||||||||
| St. Maarten | 12,861 | 216 | 74.8 | 0.900 | 0.640 | 1.000 | 0.847 | ||
| UK Virgins | 14,286 | 337 | 10.8 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.144 | 0.715 | ||
| Aruba | 11,171 | 259 | 40.3 | 0.782 | 0.768 | 0.539 | 0.696 | ||
| Caymans | 12,500 | 274 | 16.6 | 0.875 | 0.813 | 0.222 | 0.637 | ||
| Bermuda | 7,453 | 102 | 65.5 | 0.521 | 0.301 | 0.876 | 0.566 | ||
| Saba | 9,000 | 263 | 6.7 | 0.629 | 0.780 | 0.090 | 0.500 | ||
| Turks/Caicos | 13,667 | 136 | 3.9 | 0.957 | 0.402 | 0.052 | 0.470 | ||
| St. Eustatius | 8,500 | 240 | 3.0 | 0.594 | 0.711 | 0.040 | 0.448 | ||
| Guam | 12,706 | 61 | 18.6 | 0.889 | 0.179 | 0.249 | 0.439 | ||
| Malta | 1,709 | 86 | 63.9 | 0.118 | 0.253 | 0.854 | 0.408 | ||
| Hawaii | 9,186 | 133 | 4.3 | 0.642 | 0.393 | 0.058 | 0.364 | ||
| US Virgins | 7,705 | 81 | 13.9 | 0.539 | 0.238 | 0.186 | 0.321 | ||
| Marianas | 8,333 | 66 | 9.7 | 0.583 | 0.194 | 0.130 | 0.302 | ||
| Avg. | 9,929 | 173 | 25.5 | 0.695 | 0.513 | 0.342 | 0.516 | ||
| INTERMEDIATE TOURISM DEVELOPED | |||||||||
| Anguilla | 4,667 | 105 | 12.3 | 0.326 | 0.310 | 0.164 | 0.267 | ||
| Bonaire | 3,667 | 120 | 3.5 | 0.256 | 0.354 | 0.047 | 0.219 | ||
| Bahamas | 5,044 | 97 | 1.4 | 0.352 | 0.286 | 0.019 | 0.213 | ||
| Antigua | 4,343 | 81 | 7.2 | 0.303 | 0.238 | 0.096 | 0.212 | ||
| Barbados | 2,462 | 56 | 13.4 | 0.171 | 0.164 | 0.179 | 0.171 | ||
| Maldives | 1,074 | 33 | 25.4 | 0.074 | 0.095 | 0.340 | 0.170 | ||
| Cyprus | 2,461 | 97 | 3.7 | 0.171 | 0.286 | 0.050 | 0.169 | ||
| St. Kitts | 1,795 | 61 | 6.6 | 0.124 | 0.179 | 0.088 | 0.130 | ||
| Bahrain | 633 | 65 | 10.0 | 0.043 | 0.191 | 0.134 | 0.123 | ||
| Cook Island | 1,857 | 66 | 3.0 | 0.129 | 0.194 | 0.040 | 0.121 | ||
| St. Lucia | 1,968 | 46 | 5.0 | 0.137 | 0.134 | 0.067 | 0.114 | ||
| Palau | 2,368 | 48 | 2.1 | 0.165 | 0.140 | 0.028 | 0.111 | ||
| Seychelles | 1,388 | 46 | 5.2 | 0.096 | 0.134 | 0.070 | 0.100 | ||
| Martinique | 967 | 50 | 6.4 | 0.066 | 0.146 | 0.086 | 0.099 | ||
| Curacao | 1,367 | 36 | 5.0 | 0.094 | 0.104 | 0.067 | 0.088 | ||
| Grenada | 708 | 36 | 5.7 | 0.048 | 0.104 | 0.076 | 0.076 | ||
| Polynesia | 1,532 | 27 | 0.9 | 0.106 | 0.077 | 0.012 | 0.065 | ||
| Guadeloupe | 870 | 23 | 4.8 | 0.060 | 0.066 | 0.064 | 0.063 | ||
| Niue | 1,000 | 40 | 0.3 | 0.069 | 0.116 | 0.004 | 0.063 | ||
| Dominica | 690 | 40 | 1.1 | 0.047 | 0.116 | 0.015 | 0.059 | ||
| Montserrat | 1,000 | 24 | 2.4 | 0.069 | 0.069 | 0.032 | 0.057 | ||
| St. Vincent | 664 | 21 | 4.5 | 0.045 | 0.060 | 0.060 | 0.055 | ||
| Avg. | 1,933 | 55 | 5.9 | 0.134 | 0.162 | 0.079 | 0.115 | ||
| LEAST TOURISM DEVELOPED | |||||||||
| Mauritius | 458 | 8 | 4.5 | 0.031 | 0.021 | 0.060 | 0.037 | ||
| N. Calcedonia | 610 | 22 | 0.1 | 0.041 | 0.063 | 0.001 | 0.035 | ||
| Reunion | 368 | 23 | 1.0 | 0.024 | 0.006 | 0.013 | 0.034 | ||
| Iceland | 817 | 11 | 0.1 | 0.056 | 0.030 | 0.001 | 0.029 | ||
| Tonga | 87 | 14 | 0.9 | 0.005 | 0.039 | 0.012 | 0.019 | ||
| Fiji | 326 | 11 | 0.3 | 0.021 | 0.030 | 0.004 | 0.018 | ||
| Samoa | 235 | 10 | 0.3 | 0.015 | 0.027 | 0.004 | 0.015 | ||
| Trinidad | 172 | 8 | 0.8 | 0.011 | 0.021 | 0.011 | 0.014 | ||
| Tuvalu | 91 | 2 | 2.3 | 0.005 | 0.003 | 0.031 | 0.013 | ||
| Vanuatu | 290 | 7 | 0.1 | 0.019 | 0.018 | 0.001 | 0.013 | ||
| Marshalls | 56 | 1 | 1.7 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.023 | 0.009 | ||
| Cape Verde | 57 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.003 | 0.006 | 0.007 | 0.005 | ||
| Kiribati | 21 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.008 | 0.003 | ||
| Sao Tome | 30 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.001 | 0.000 | 0.004 | 0.002 | ||
| Solomons | 52 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.002 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.002 | ||
| Comoros | 32 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.001 | 0.000 | 0.003 | 0.001 | ||
| Avg. | 231 | 8 | 0.7 | 0.015 | 0.020 | 0.011 | 0.016 | ||
| Sources: See Table 1 | |||||||||
| Notes: | (a) Calculated as: [(Tourists * Stay) + Day]/[(Population *365)*1,000] | ||||||||
| (b) Calculated as: (Indicator Value-Minimum)/(Maximum/Minimum). | |||||||||
| (c) Unweighted Average of the three impact indices. | |||||||||