The stories of the people you visit, in their own words

Curaçao

Tourism Voices from Curaçao in the Dutch Carribean, explore how local communities experience tourism and how they would like tourism to develop.

Stories from this region include the perspectives of local residents, entrepreneurs, young people and other groups involved in tourism.

Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao

Who Gets to Wait at the Harbour

The head of the taxi drivers' union on double-decker buses, foreign-owned shops, and the mentality he wants his island to shed.

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Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao

The Dance We Forgot to Teach

An official from the youth and adult education department on tumba, forgotten instruments, and a culture policy that never quite met the tourism one.

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Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao

Where Have All the Young People Gone?

Curaçao's youth on emigration, uniforms, and the carnival parade tourists still don't understand.

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Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao

More Than Them and Us

A Curaçao tourism expert on the friars, the stereotypes that outlived them, and what changes when the visitors stop being only Dutch.

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Curaçao

The Woman They Still Call Zus

Everyone in Punda's market calls her Zus — "sister" — a name she's carried since she was a girl small enough to disappear behind the pots. Her mother started the stall decades ago; Zus never really left. Now the government wants to tear the market down.

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