WILLEMSTAD - The overall stayover arrivals in the first eleven months grew by 7% compared to last year. Curaçao welcomed in total 384,633 stayover visitors in the first eleven months of 2018. During the first eleven months of 2018 a total of 159,056 Dutch visitors were welcomed. Last year in the same period 143,345 Dutch visitors were counted, an increase of 11%. From the United States of America the growth is recorded at 19% counting a total of 65,293 US visitors from January through November 2018. In 2017 we welcomed 54,831 stayover arrivals from USA. Canada grew with 7% more visitors, counting a total of 17,979 stayover arrivals in the first eleven months of the year 2018.

A direct impact of $ 566.3 million US dollars was generated for the local economy in the first eleven months of 2018. Forty-seven percent of the total direct impact is generated from European visitors who are responsible for $ 265.4 million US dollars. The direct economic impact from the remaining regions is as follows: North America $ 129.4 million, South America $ 97.3 million and Caribbean/other regions $ 74.2 million.