With its accommodation’s general managers and owners
WILLEMSTAD - Last week, CHATA held its bi-annual general managers and owners meeting for their accommodation’s members. Several members from different properties attended the meeting where CHATA President and CEO, Mr. Miles Mercera, gave a presentation to emphasize on current relevant topics and to address any questions the sector has. Topics that were discussed during the meetings included, Costs of Doing Business, CTA, Government status, the Government Subsidy (NOW Regeling), Accommodations Performance, Airlift and any other concerns the sector wanted to share in order to receive a better idea of Curaçao’s situation.
For the last month, CHATA has been performing a weekly analysis to the accommodations sector and monitor the bookings, forecasts, cancellations, and reasoning for cancellations. The results of this analysis are valuable for CHATA to receive a better indication on booking behavior of those interested in or coming to Curaçao. Aside from the booking behavior, the survey also provides number of cancellations and it gives an indication as to why the traveler has decided to cancel their trip. During the month of July, the average forecast of hotel occupancy was 42%, while the bookings resulted in 20%. However, for August, the forecast was 47% and the average hotel bookings is 21%. While monitoring the accommodation sector, it was noticeable that several cancellations were made related to the COVID-19 scare. Other reasoning for the cancellation of traveling plans are community protests, mandatory PCR tests, ticket prices and other reasoning related to the closed borders to the US.
CHATA will continue to monitor the accommodations performances as well as keeping their members informed on the current situation.