3rd July 2020

At least one Caribbean island made it clear that visitors from United States will not enter the island

By Barbados Today

At least one Caribbean island has made it clear that visitors from the United States are not welcome until that country gets its exploding COVID-19 infections under control.

Jeanette Bonet, a hotelier on the Dutch-speaking island of Curacao said her country, along with sister islands Aruba and Bonaire, reopened their borders from today and would welcome tourists from the European Union and later this month, it would lay out the welcome mat for visitors from a select set of nations including Canada.

Speaking at a Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) webinar on the hotel sector’s role in reviving tourism in the region, Bonet said the administration in Curacao was focused on protecting the 6,000 inhabitants  of the island from the novel coronavirus.

“One of the countries we have decided that we will not open the borders for, seeing the amount of cases there, is the United States market. That market for us is a no-go. If Aruba decides to open for the United States market, then we will have to close off for those islands,” Bonet, a former CHTA president explained.

She said the wider Caribbean region would likely be the last market to be open for visitors because most flights from the Caribbean have to travel through the United States to reach Curacao.

Karolin Troubetzkoy president of the St Lucia Hotel Association, another participant in the discussion said international flights to that Eastern Caribbean nation would resume from July 10.

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