Bonaire welcomed 19,540 stayover visitors during December 2025

TCB Informs

 Tourism Corporation Bonaire (TCB) has shared preliminary tourism data for December 2025, revealing that Bonaire received 19,540 stayover visitors. This represents a 1.9% increase compared to December 2024, when 19,170 visitors arrived.

Visitors from the Netherlands formed the largest group, accounting for 43.9% of total arrivals, with 8,553 visitors. US visitors were the second-largest group, accounting for 31.9% of arrivals and 6,228 visitors.

A total of 1,545 (7.9%) visitors from Curaçao visited the island, followed by Canada with 848 (4.3%) visitors, Germany with 273 (1.4%) visitors, Aruba with 246 (1.3%) visitors, Belgium with 213 (1.1%) visitors, Colombia with 170 (0.9%) visitors, Brazil with 128 (0.7%) visitors, UK with 119 (0.6%) visitors, and Switzerland with 113 (0.6%) visitors.

US visitors mainly traveled with a partner, followed by alone. Most came for vacation (56%), diving (31.6%), and visiting friends and family (4.2%). The majority stayed at a hotel (48.6%), a villa (15.4%), an apartment (9.8%), their own property (7.2%), or with a relative (5%). US visitors primarily came from New York, Florida, California, Texas, and North Carolina. The age distribution showed that travelers aged 45-54 accounted for 20.3% of visitors, while those aged 55-64 accounted for 19.8%.

Dutch visitors were mainly solo travelers, followed by those traveling with a partner. Most visitors came for vacation (72%), visited friends and family (12%), and for business (3.4%). Most visitors stayed at a hotel (45.2%), followed by an apartment (14.8%), at a relative (11.6%), a villa (8.3%), and their own property (6.3%). Most Dutch visitors came from North Holland, South Holland, Gelderland, North Brabant, and Utrecht, with the 55-64 age group (19.3%) and the 45-54 age group (16.9%) being the largest segments.

For more details on Bonaire’s tourism performance, visit www.bonaireisland.com or contact us via email at info@bonaireisland.com.