There have been some large journey success tales within the post-pandemic interval. Antigua and Barbuda. The US Virgin Islands. Turks and Caicos. The Bahamas.
In relation to the American market, one island has seen significantly sturdy development: the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao.
Starting in the summertime of 2022, the island started seeing American visitation in numbers it had by no means seen earlier than — and it’s a pattern that retains strengthening.
It was true once more final month, when Curacao noticed a 24 p.c improve in vacationers from america, with a complete of 14,703 arrivals in August.
That was essentially the most development of any phase for Curacao, and helped drive the vacation spot’s total development to 18 p.c final month, in accordance with knowledge supplied to Caribbean Journal by the Curacao Vacationer Board.
The island was additionally boosted by a robust displaying for the return of its Curacao North Sea Jazz Pageant, one of many Caribbean’s hottest music occasions.
For the 12 months, the island is up 24 p.c in comparison with what was already a tremendously sturdy 2023 vacationer 12 months.
Whenever you rely cruise passengers, stayover arrivals and day journey vacationers from close by Dutch Caribbean islands, the whole variety of guests jumps properly over 1 million.
It’s a part of what native tourism officers are calling a “outstanding” 12 months for stayover tourism.
CJ Knowledgeable Take: Curacao has been seeing scorching tourism numbers for properly over two years, because of the debut of recent all-inclusive resorts from manufacturers like Hilton.
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