by Brian Major
Last updated: 1:10 PM ET, Mon September 25, 2023
JetBlue will
add two flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Curaçao
International Airport beginning February 2024, said Curaçao Tourist Board
officials.
The new winter-schedule
flights will increase JetBlue’s non-stop frequency to Curaçao from five flights
per week to daily departures.
In a statement,
Curaçao Tourist Board attributed the added New York departures to “a steadily
growing demand from the U.S. market. The new service follows JetBlue’s April expansion,
which increased the non-stop flights departing JFK airport for Curaçao from
three times a week to five times a week.
“This is a
very important achievement in order to continue to enhance our tourism industry
in 2024 and consequently give an impulse to our economy”, said Ruisandro
Cijntje, minister of tourism and economic development. Curaçao officials
have reported booming
tourist arrivals for the destination in 2023.
Curaçao hosted 49,258 overnight,
land-based travelers in August, a 16 percent year-over-year increase its second-best visitation month in 2023. The country welcomed 50,937 visitors in July.
Through August,
Curaçao has hosted 373,068 overnight travelers, a 17 percent year-over-year increase
compared with 2022, when the Caribbean nation hosted 318,432 visitors hosted during the same period.
The U.S. has
hosted 94,275 overnight arrivals during the first eight months of 2023, surpassing the island's total for 2022, officials said. Curaçao’s best year for U.S. visitation came
last year when the country welcomed 93,428 overnight visitors.
Through August,
visitors from the United States and Brazil, Curaçao’s two leading source
markets, have both surpassed their overnight arrivals for all of 2022, said Curaçao
Tourist Board officials.
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