King’s day is a national holiday celebrated in The Netherlands and Curacaoon April 27th. To honor the birthday of King Willem Alexander, this is a day filled with festivities, street fairs, old-fashioned games for the kids, and entertainment for the adults. Expect to see people dressed traditionally in orange and enjoying the day in downtown […]

Due to the pandemic, Curacao has had to do without carnival for no less than two years. But now that it can continue this time, the enthusiasm is greater than previously seen interest groups. “This is very good for the economy,” writes Caribbean Network. Hard figures are not yet available about the carnival period, […]

Curacao International Airport has fully recovered from the negative consequences of the covid pandemic and is reporting better passenger numbers than those of 2019. The recovery amounts to 101 percent compared to 2019, the reference year for achieving pre-pandemic traffic figures. Hato counted almost one and a half million arriving and departing passengers. Nearly […]

The Curacao hotels have achieved an average room occupancy of 70.7 percent in 2022, almost 10 percentage points better than the regional average. This is announced by the Curacao Hospitality and Tourism Association (Chata). “According to STR, the leading organization that analyzes hotel performance worldwide, the average for the Caribbean as a whole was […]