Travel Trends - January 2025 Curaçao’s Tourism Statistics

Remarkable achievements for Curacao! The island logged 117,844 more stayover visitors in 2024 than in 2023 representing a 20% increase. And, for the first time ever, the number of stayover visitors in a year breached 700,000.

Of the 1.57mm visitors to the island, nearly 835,000 vacationers arrived on its shores via 328 cruise calls.

The month of December set a travel record with 73,669 stayover arrivals, a 16% increase vs last December and the first time more than 70,000 visitors arrived during a single month. The future of Curacao tourism looks bright!

This December, arrivals from the US jumped a dramatic 30% from the same time last year, with over 19,000 visitors coming. On average, they stayed 6.4 nights.  Travelers from the Netherlands represented the largest group at >25,000 staying on average for 2 weeks.  Travelers from the US are on trend to take over the #1 spot in 2026.

Curacao continues to prove itself a sought-after port for cruise lines. 2024 set records for cruise calls (328) and passengers (834,922). Earlier this year, the Curacao cruise port was voted the best port in the Caribbean and the second best in the world by Cruiseline 2024 Member Choice Awards. The growth in traffic has helped green-light the development of another cruise terminal, set to begin soon. An important project given the ambitious goal of handling 1 million cruise passengers annually.

Air traffic to the island has seen a significant uptick as well in 2024. Both JetBlue and Delta Airlines announced they were moving to daily flights from JFK and Atlanta respectively while Corendon out of Amsterdam increased from 3 to 5 weekly trips. 

All-inclusive and other hotels accounted for 23% and 22% of accommodations respectively in 2024. 43% of visitors, however, opted for stays in rental apartments or villas. Travelers to the island are staying longer. 

Nearly 41% of visitors stayed for longer than week though this metric is heavily skewed by visitors from the Netherlands who stay on average 3 times longer than other travelers.