Cura?ao completed 2024 with a 20 percent year-over-year increase in land-based and cruise ship visitors, said Cura?ao Tourist Board (CTB) officials. The sectors combined to bring 1.57 million visitors to the Caribbean destination last year, driven in part by a 30 percent increase in travelers from the United States.

Cura?ao hosted 700,249 overnight, land-based visitors, 35,499 daytime travelers and 834,922 cruise passengers across 2024. The destination¡¯s strong 2024 results were driven in part by a record December, during which Cura?ao hosted 73,669 overnight, land-based visitors, a 16 percent year-over-year increase.

The month also represented the first in which Cura?ao hosted more than 70,000 overnight visitors, said CTB officials. The United States represented Cura?ao¡¯s second-largest visitor source market in 2024 (behind The Netherlands), with arrivals up 30 percent year-over-year.

Visitors from the USA stayed an average of 6.4 nights, with most travelers originating from New York, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, and Georgia, said CTB officials.

The United States is one of the Cura?ao source markets ¡°to have seen [increased] air service from different airline partners, who in overall have either expanded their connection or started a new route¡± to the nation, said CTB officials.

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