The Princess Juliana International Airport Operating Company (PJIAE N.V.), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Justice’s Immigration and Border Protection Services (IBPS) and the Department of Statistics, proudly announces a marked increase in inbound passenger traffic for the first quarter of 2025, along with a major milestone in the automation of immigration data collection.

St. Maarten, May 2, 2024 – St. Maarten is pleased to announce a significant growth in tourism,
with a total of 131,322 stayover guests welcomed during the first quarter of 2024. This marks a
notable 7% increase from the same period last year.

Stay-over tourism refers to the act of traveling to a different location and spending at least one night there. Since the pandemic there has been a boost in travel because of the pentup demand to travel post Covid restrictions.

This marks a 6% increase in stayover arrivals compared to the preceding year (2022), Which saw 372,808 Visitors. This figure represents a growth of 24% over the pre-pandemic 2019 (319,696) and an even larger growth of 59% from the post-pandemic in 2021 (248,852).
While it is important to note that the current figures have not yet reached the high-water mark set in 2016 registering 528,153 guests, with the continued upward trajectory it is highly anticipated that the country will surpass the 2016 record in the coming years.