TOURISM WORTH ALMOST 2 BILLION

In the first months of this year, 1,934 million guilders were pumped into the economy through tourism. And this amount is only about the tourists, and not the investments that are made to beautify the island or construction work among other things, for example the hotels. “A full recovery from the pandemic,” said Zulaika Mook of the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO). The international company Forwardkeys, which makes tourism analyzes that shows that the Caribbean region is the only one to record a growth in tourism (15 percent). And Curacao is one of the islands that is in the top in the United States and Colombia as the Caribbean destination that has profiled itself the best. Chata director Hans Slier also provided figures showing that things are also improving in the hotel sector. Sem Ayoubi of CPA has indicated that in the first nine months of 2022 a total of 184 cruise ships have called in the island. The ships brought a total of 315,296 passengers to the island.