WILLEMSTAD - Hans Slier, chairman of the Curaçao Hotel and Tourism Association (CHATA), says that the negative travel advice the Netherlands is considering for the Christmas period will be "disastrous" for Curaçao.
Slier thinks this will ensure that 50 to 60 percent of the catering businesses will close permanently or go bankrupt. This is because the companies no longer have buffers, the second wave is therefore much more devastating, according to Slier. The CHATA foreman hopes that the advice of the Outbreak Management Team in the Netherlands will be rejected and even wants Curaçao to open its borders completely from December 1 this year.
