Curaçao Tourists Board Figures on September/October 2013

The Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) published interim data on September and October 2013. The figures show an increase in the total number of stay-over tourists of four percent in September and eight percent in October, with a total of over 71,000 tourists visiting the island during those two months. These figures include tourists from all over the world, including Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America. The European market showed the largest increase with 11 percent more tourists, with tourists from Germany increasing by a whopping 25 percent, as compared to the same time last year. Tourists from Latin America also increased, with a three percent increase in September and a 23 percent increase in October. The largest increase came from Venezuela and the largest decline was from Brazilian tourists, with a decrease of 30 percent in September and 49 percent in October. Visitors from North America and the Caribbean both decreased at an average of nine and a half percent and five percent, respectively.