CURACAO TOURISM BOOMS
Article on Curacao by Ben Fox (Associated Press)
Various newspapers, including USA Today and Miami Herald, published an article by Ben Fox. Here follows an excerpt:
In a grim season for Caribbean tourism, an island just north of Venezuela stands out: Hotel rooms are scarce and discounts unavailable.
That’s largely because Curacao is crowded with Venezuelans, many fleeing their country’s spiraling inflation and currency controls for a Dutch Caribbean island best known for its diving opportunities and historic city center, a U.N. World Heritage site. (…)
Curacao officials project 2008 visitor growth of 30 percent to about 390,000 people. The latest …
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