Curaçao Travel Guide - Business

• GDP: US$3.3 billion (Netherlands Antilles, 2005).
• Main exports: Petroleum products.
• Main imports: Crude petroleum, food and manufactured goods.
• Main trade partners: Venezuela, USA and The Netherlands.

Curaçao is the most prosperous of the Netherlands Antilles island group. The economy is based on tourism, telecommunications and transport, the financial services sector and trade and industry.

The capital, Willemstad, is at the centre of a network of offshore banking facilities and other financial services. Curaçao also houses one of the largest dry docks in the western Caribbean. Oil refining and transhipment are the other key economic activities.
 
Import substitution has also been successfully pursued and a wide range of consumer goods are now produced locally. Venezuela, which supplies most of the crude oil for the refineries, and the USA are the island’s principal trading partners.

Suits should be worn and punctuality is essential.

Office hours: Mon-Fri 0730-1200 and 1330-1630.

There are facilities at the World Trade Centre, Conference Centre Kura Hulanda and Tres Tan Conference Centre.

Curaçao Chamber of Commerce and Industry
PO Box 10, Kaya Junior Salas 1, Willemstad, Curaçao
Tel: (9) 461 1451 or 3918.
Website: www.curacao-chamber.an

For further information on conferences/conventions, contact the Curaçao Tourism Development Bureau (see Contact Addresses).