The Tourism Exit survey covered a sample of all tourists visiting St. Maarten by means other than via commercial vessels and private yachts. In this case, focus was placed particularly on tourists that left the island by aircraft via the Princess Juliana International Airport. According to the WTO (2001), tourism is defined as the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.

The focus of this section is on the stay-over visitors in which St. Maarten’s overall stay-over arrivals will be covered. In addition, this section presents the results of the expenditure and satisfaction surveys that were conducted at the Princess Juliana International Airport in 2021. The surveys took place in May, August, and December 2021.