Bermuda’s visitor numbers for the last three months are down 3.5 percent, with fewer tourists visiting on cruise ships and yachts compared to last year.Tourism Minister Patrice Minors today announced that 243,858 visitors had come to Bermuda from April to June, compared to 252,734 in the same period in 2010.The second quarter of 2011 visitor statistics show cruise visitors dipped by approximately 100,000 passengers. There were 161,036 cruise ship passengers this year compared to 171,295 during the same period last year a decrease of almost six percent.Yacht arrivals declined by almost 40 percent in the second quarter. A total of 2,360 yachtsmen sailed to the Island, down from 3,927 yachtsmen in the first quarter of 2010.However, air arrivals rose almost four percent with a total of 80,462 visitors flying to the Island during this period, up from 77,512 in 2010. This is a 3.81 percent increase year-on-year.Ms Minors told a press conference at Beau Rivage restaurant: “Bermuda continues to experience modest and encouraging gains in arrivals for the year.“The global economic downturn is still very evident in all of the major economies, especially our key target markets of the USA and the UK, but we continue to achieve our fair share of business in these very difficult times”.Ms Minors put the decline in cruise ship passengers down to the Norwegian Dawn being dry-docked in May, which resulted in five fewer sailings for the ship.She added that yacht arrivals had decreased as the Newport to Bermuda event had been hosted in this period last year.