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1. Nationalities of respondents
In this study, the questionnaires were distributed randomly with no particular interest to any specific nationals. There were 411 respondents who visited from different countries of the world.
Figure 2: Nationality of respondents
In figure 2 above, the British visitors were the highest in number with 48.4%; this is not a surprise though judging from the great presence of British people on the Island, most of which even own properties where they come to stay during holidays. Second on the chart are the Germans with 7.3%, followed by the Russians, Polish and the Danish with 5.8%, 5.4% and 5.1% respectively. The visitors from Hungary and Netherlands were present with 2.2% and 2.4%. The remaining 23.4% represent visitors from the United States, some from Asian countries, African mostly South Africans, and even visitors from as far away as Brazil and Australia.
2. Gender of respondents
Figure 3: Gender of respondents
The gender distribution of the respondents has 234 female respondents and 177 male respondents with 56.9% and 43.1% respectively. This did not come as a surprise because women tend to embark on holiday trips more than the men. As can be seen in the figure above the difference is not really very much anyways, it is a 13.8 percentage difference.
3. Age of respondents
The dominant age group of the respondents was 18 to 30 years (49.1%), followed by 31 to 40 years (17.5%), 41 to 50 years (15.6%), and 51 to 60 years (12.7%), whereas 61 to 70 years and 70 year and above with 2.7% and 2.4% respectively made up the smallest group. Figure 4 shows these illustrations;
Figure 4: age of respondents
4. Respondents’ highest education attainment
As can been seen in table 11; out of the 411 respondents, 107 are Masters degree holders, 95 are Bachelors degree holder both accounted for 26.0% and 23.1% respectively, they accounted for the highest portion unsurprisingly because they may have well to do jobs which may have afforded them the opportunity to take vacations. Respondents with high school as highest education level came third with a percentage of 20.7 followed by the group with secondary school with 18.5%. Those with vocational school, polytechnic and primary school as highest educational levels accounted for the lowest; probably those with primary school as their highest educational may fall within those around the ages of 18 to 20, most are still dependent on family for such trips.
Table 11: respondents’ highest education attainment
