26/03/2025
From Tourism Analytics: Aruba received 5.4% fewer stopover visitors in February 2025 than was received in February 2024.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, Aruba received 115,560 stopover arrivals in February 2025, 5.4% fewer than the 122,149 stopover visitors it received in February 2024.
Compared with February 2024, stopover arrivals from the USA declined by 7.0%, falling from 91,636 arrivals in February 2024 to 85,256 arrivals in February 2025.
Arrivals from the USA comprised 73.8% of all arrivals in February 2025 down from 75.0% in February 2024.
Arrivals from Canada declined by 5.2%, falling from 9,253 visitors in February 2024 to 8,773 stopovers in February 2025.
Arrivals from Argentina increased by 60.7%, growing from 2,058 stopovers in February 2024 to 3,308 in February of this year.
Arrivals from the Netherlands decreased by 14.0%, falling from 3,377 visitors in February 2024 to 2,903 stopovers in February 2025.
The number of visitors staying in hotels in February fell by 6.6%, from 50,816 stopovers in February 2024 to 47,488 in February of this year.
Their share of all stopover visitors fell from 41.6% in February 2024 to 41.1% in February 2025.
The number of visitors using āotherā accommodation (primarily short term rental of homes or apartments) declined by 2.9%, from 44,180 in February 2024 to 42,879 in February 2025 with the share growing from 36.2% in 2024 to 37.1% this year.
Aruba also received 44 cruise ship calls in February 2025 and a total of 111,675 cruise passengers, with the volume of cruise visitors down 13.0% from the 128,386 received in February 2024. The average number of passengers per call fell from 2,620 visitors in February 2024 to 2,538 cruise visitors in February 2025.
It should be noted that February 2025 had one fewer day than February 2024, a 3.4% decrease in the number of days.
In the first two months of 2025 Aruba saw a 0.4% decline in the number of stopover visitors, falling from 493,103 visitors in the first two months of 2024 to 475,529 visitors in the first two months of this year. The number of stopovers from the USA declined by 2.2% during the first two months, falling from 177,485 in the first two months of 2024 to 173,566 in the same two months of 2025. The share of stopovers from the USA fell from 73.5% in the first two months of 2024 to 72.2% in the same two months of 2025.
The number of visitors staying in hotels decreased by 4.2% falling from 100,667 in the first two months of 2024 to 96,442 in the same two months of 2025 with the share of such visitors falling from 41.7% in 2024 to 40.1% in the same two months of 2025. This was because the number of visitors staying in āOther Accommodation,ā primarily short term rental accommodation in private homes or apartments, grew by 5.9%, from 85,995 visitors in the first two months of 2024 to 91,068 in the same two months of 2025.with their share of all visitors growing from 35.6% in 2024 to 37.9% in the same two months of 2025.
Aruba received 94 cruise ship calls in the first two months of 2025 with 235,182 cruise passengers compared with the 97 calls cruise ships made in the same two months of 2024 with 251,760 passengers. The average number of passengers per call fell by 3.6%, from 2,595 visitors in the first two months of 2024 to 2,502 visitors in the same two months of 2025.