July 21, 2009

ARUBA: "CRISIS? THERE IS NO TOURISM CRISIS!"







ORANJESTAD – Last Friday, Minister of Tourism Edison Briesen responded to a news article, which had appeared in a local morning newspaper on July 9th. In that article, Otmar Oduber, one of the AVP-candidates responded to an assumed decrease of the tourism on Aruba.



According to Oduber, the decline of the tourism was due to the poor governing of MEP. “We are the only ones who have arranged for a more substantial publicity of Aruba within the Caribbean” Briesen commented. “We invested 18 million florins in the market to achieve this.”


According to Briesen, the tourism had considerably increased during the first eight months of 2008. “That was a record year”. The article also mentioned that the American tourism was threatened in view of terrorist attacks.


In the article, Oduber remarked that at the time, there was the threat that several flights to Aruba would be terminated, and that this did not materialize because the former premier Henny Eman negotiated with various airline companies in the United States. “This is entirely incorrect”, says Briesen.


BRIBERY?


According to Briesen, the former premier Eman only approached American Airlines to negotiate an arrangement where AA would receive 50,000 florins per month if the flights continued. “Until now, I have never seen a plan from AVP for tourism-improvement”.


On the comment that the tourism has decreased lately, Briesen responds as follows. “The tourism has decreased worldwide due to the economical crisis.” According to Briesen, there is no report of a crisis on Aruba in spite of the recession, as Oduber assumes in his article. “The hotels are not fully booked, but they are certainly not empty.”



Michelle Says So:

Let's look BEYOND the fact that the United States is having an economic crisis. Let's look at the facts about how tourism has forever scarred Aruba. For over four years Aruba has been living in a fishbowl with the entire world looking down on them and their every move. Some don't care, but PLENTY DO.





Writer and commentator, Fred Taub, of Boycott Watch.Org, wrote 15 articles on Aruba's tourism crisis from 2005 through 2009 due solely to the conspiracy of Aruban law enforcement and government to cover up the murder of Natalee Holloway, and the non-prosecution of Joran van der Sloot.



MISSING GIRL SPARKS BOYCOTT IN ARUBA


ALABAMA GOVERNOR ENDORSES BOYCOTT


THE OTHER ARUBA COVER-UP


ARUBA TOURISM CONTINUES TO FALL--BOYCOTT STRONGER THAN EVER


ARUBA TAKES ACTION TO COUNTER BOYCOTT


ARUBA'S FALSE CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT BOYCOTT


IS THE NEW EVIDENCE SOMETHING ARUBA COVERED UP?


ARUBAN PROSECUTOR PROVES BOYCOTT WATCH IS RIGHT


ARUBA REACTS TO BOYCOTT AND NEW QUESTIONS


ARUBAN BOYCOTT OVER? NOT IF YOU ARE 18!


ARUBA'S TOURISM CAUSED MILLIONS IN ECONOMIC LOSS


ARUBA: CORRUPT OR INCOMPETENT?


BOYCOTT WATCH WAS RIGHT!


ARUBA: MORE LIES, LESS SAFETY


BOYCOTT WATCH CHALLENGES ARUBA TO ANSWER QUESTIONS



With all the negative media attention put on Aruba, it's not just our economics that are failing your island. You know who the people are who are failing you.

It would be so easy to fix to come clean, provide REAL JUSTICE, and punish those responsible for this mess. Then we would all go away.

But no one is planning on going anywhere right now.

Know that.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Arubans divide on issues of what really causing the decline of the American tourists tourism on the island. The poor customer care and coverup of Natalee's rape and murder is obviously the reason for denial by Aruban Minister of Tourism Edison Briesen who insists to add the poll tax on the American tourists on departure to finance the retainer bonus for the US airlines. The 18 million florins investment comes from the poll tax and ripoff from the American tourists.

Anonymous said...

"Senior Frog's," entice the ideas that the old dirty ugly politicians like Oduber can drug, rape and murder young girls at C&C bar and dancing belly shots as boasted so often by Joran van der Sloot in Holland and Thailand on his exile. "Senior Frog" is old sex offender and pedophile. Some American politicians visited Aruba lately and tried to coverup their wrong doings with their wives's testimonies. It becomes a very serious matters considered by the American authorities. Aruba is evil. Boycott Aruba!

Anonymous said...

For Aruba, the economy is ticking time bomb. A deathly combination of American tourists staying away from Aruba and the shutdown of Aruba's oil refinery. The Aruban tourists industry is completely destroyed by the ArubanBoycott Grassroots Movement. The Aruba Mafia is no longer able to ship the cocaine and heroin to US underworld market in earmarked oil barrels. The decreased cash flow leads to the collapse of the Aruban government, and more young girls are rounded up from the umemployed workers' families to be sold as sex slaves via international human trafficking corporations run by the King Pimp Joran van der Sloot in Thailand. There are shortage of food and bottled water in Aruba, and the poor black people in South Aruba are demanding the white elite Dutch Oduber government to do something to save them from starvation. The pressure is extremely high and dangerous, has led the nation's major unrest and anger to overthrow the corrupt white Oduber government and chase all the Dutch elites and ALE officers out of the island and to be buried into the ocean. The only salvation to Aruba is to arrest Joran van der Sloot ASAP and resolve the Natalee Holloway rape murder case.