WILLEMSTAD - Individuals in Curaçao rent out more than 3000 rooms / apartments to tourists. The Curaçao tourist office CTB indicates that it concerns around 30 percent of the total room supply on the island.

The turnover in this alternative holiday rental sector is estimated at around 50 million guilders per year.

The registration of these rooms and apartments is not going well, so that not every owner pays taxes. The tourism organization did not say what they will do to counteract this.