The cruise visitor numbers (the number of cruise visitors cleared to land) for year to date April have been published for many Caribbean ports, with Curaçao being one.
Of the 17 destinations we track nine have published their numbers through April with a further five publishing their numbers through March.
Of the 17 destinations more than half (9 of 17) have received more cruise visitors in 2023 than they did in the same months of 2019 showing the region’s cruise industry is very much back on track.
The Dominican Republic has more than doubled the number of cruise visitors it received in the first four months of 2023 compared with the same four months of 2019. The Bahamas has also seen strong growth having received 850,000 more cruise visitors in the first four months of 2023 than it did in the same four months of 2019, growing from 1.95 million cruise visitors in 2019 to 2.8 million cruise visitors in the first four months of 2023.
The overall average for all 17 destinations is a 9.5% increase in cruise visitors in 2023 compared with 2019.
Curaçao has seen a 7.6% increase in cruise visitors in the first four months of 2023 compared with the same four months of 2019, slightly below the average.
Aruba has seen a 19.7% increase in cruise visitors compared with 2019.
Eight destinations have yet to fully recover the number of cruise visitors they received in 2019, with Jamaica and the Cayman Islands both at 74% of their 2019 totals.
