WILLEMSTAD – The Curaçao Vacationer Board is proud to announce a outstanding achievement. Our vacation spot has welcomed 700,249 stayover arrivals in 2024. This milestone highlights the rising attraction of our island’s vibrant tradition, gorgeous landscapes, and heat hospitability.
This achievement wouldn’t have been doable with out the assist of our companions, stakeholders, the group, and most significantly, our valued visitors. Curaçao’s tourism noticed a robust 20% improve in comparison with 2023, with 117,844 extra stayover guests throughout the yr.
Curaçao’s tourism trade demonstrated growth and stability in 2024, pushed by strategic efforts to keep up visibility in key markets. These initiatives have efficiently positioned Curaçao as a vacation spot the place vacationers can “Really feel it for your self.”
From January to December 2024, the island welcomed 700,249 stayover arrivals, 35,499 day-trippers, and 834,922 cruise passengers, leading to a complete of 1,570,670 vacationer arrivals. This represents a outstanding 20% improve in comparison with the identical interval in 2023.
December 2024
December 2024 marks a brand new chapter in our success story. It’s the first time Curaçao welcomes over 70,000 stayover arrivals in a single month. The entire stayover arrivals recorded are counted at 73,669, a 16% improve in comparison with December 2023. Notably pushed by Curaçao’s major market, the Netherlands, adopted by the USA and Colombia.
All three supply international locations have seen improve air service from totally different airline companions, who in general have both expanded their connection or began a brand new path to Curaçao.
Curaçao’s Tourism Prime 3 Supply Markets in December
The Netherlands
In December 2024, Curaçao welcomed 25,255 guests from the Netherlands, reflecting a 9% improve in comparison with 23,111 arrivals in December 2023. The common size of keep for guests from the Netherlands was 13.9 nights.
United States
The USA stays an important marketplace for Curaçao, with a 30% rise in arrivals. A complete of 19,069 American guests traveled to the island in December 2024, in comparison with 14,714 in December 2023. Guests from the USA stayed a median of 6.4 nights, with most arrivals originating from New York, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, and Georgia.
Colombia
Colombian arrivals confirmed a slight decline, totaling 5,330 guests in December 2024, down 1% from 5,405 in December 2023. Colombia emerges because the third supply market in absolute numbers, welcoming barely extra guests in comparison with Canada (4,957) and Brazil (4,245). Colombian guests spent a median of seven.3 nights on the island.
