PRINCE.EDWARD.ISLAND (CBC) - Americans make up the biggest group of international visitors to P.E.I. and tend to stay the longest, according to new information from UPEI's Tourism Research Centre.

The study released Thursday, based on information collected in 2007, showed Canadians were easily the most common visitors to the Island, making up 86 per cent of tourists.

Ten per cent of visitors were American. They stayed an average of six nights while Europeans, making up three per cent of visitors, stayed five nights on average.

The Japanese, famous for coming to the Island to visit the home of Anne of Green Gables, made up only 0.4 per cent of visitors, and stayed an average of four nights.

The study did not focus on any other particular geographic origin for visitors, with just one per cent coming from other locations. Those visitors, however, were the biggest spenders at $102 a night.

More than 3,000 people were interviewed for the survey.

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