July 22, 2009

BOYCOTT WATCH REPORT: ARUBA BRIBED AIRLINES & HOTELS TO REPORT FALSE TOURISM






July 21, 2009

Boycott Watch Exclusive - Special thanks to True Crime reporter Michelle Simonsen for her blog entry which resulted in this report.






In a February, 2008 appearance on Fox News, Boycott Watch President Fred Taub discussed how tourism was down in Aruba while Neil Cavuto reported skyrocketing tourism numbers. While that may have been confusing to some viewers, Fred Taub and his numbers were vindicated today in a report by Natalee Holloway and true-crime blogger Michelle Simonsen where she quoted an Aruban official admitting Aruba paid American Airlines a bribe to keep flying to Aruba despite low tourism.


In Michelle's report, Aruba claims the low tourism numbers were because of terrorism and terrorist threats, but that clearly means boycotts in English. The fact is that Aruba denied the affect of the boycott inspired by the disappearance, and we believe murder of Natalee Holloway. In fact, Aruba first claimed that tourism was up when the numbers were actually down in light of the boycott, a story Boycott Watch broke by exposing a Central Bank of Aruba report showing the Aruba economy shrinking between six and eight percent when Aruba tourism officials claimed tourism was up ten percent.


Later, when Joran Van Der Sloot was exposed as having a direct link to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, there were several media reports of vandalism at the Van Der Sloot home by people who were hurt economically by the Aruba boycott, all the while Aruba was still reporting record tourism numbers. A few months ago, however, Boycott Watch reported that Aruba finally admitted Aruba lied and that Boycott Watch was right about their tourism reports all along.


Today we have the new revelation that Aruba bribed American Airlines, and probably others airlines as well to keep their flight schedules, no doubt because Aruba did not want to admit to actual lower tourism numbers. As a corollary, Boycott Watch believes hotels must have been bribed to block out rooms as well to create the illusion of sold out vacation packages, which explains why hotel rooms were booked when airlines tickets were sold, apparently to ghosts, and this news has caught up with politicians in Aruba who are appear to be running like rats from a sinking ship as the Dutch government investigates the Aruba leadership.



By bribing airlines to fly empty planes to Aruba, Aruba maintained the appearance of high tourism numbers while the airlines still made money on those flights, probably calling their flights booked. This correlates to the time Aruba claimed to be "investing" in its infrastructure to boost tourism, and Boycott Watch now understands what that those investments were.


"I remember hearing news reporters saying they were unable to get hotel rooms in early 2008 which contradicted my reports of few tourists shopping in Aruba, and the reason is now clear - hotel rooms were made unavailable so potential tourists felt urgency to book hotel rooms, and to fool the reporters - Aruba created an artificial demand - Aruba lied again, and we are busting them again" said Fred Taub of Boycott Watch.


Previously, Boycott Watch also reported how a double murderer escaped from an Aruba jail because Aruba is so incompetent, that they left a large ladder inside the jail so every prisoner could escape. "The incompetence in Aruba is staggering" commented Fred Taub. To erase the stigma of the Natalee Holloway disappearance, Carlos and Charlies, the bar Natelee was last seen in, has had its name changed to "Senior Frog's," but Boycott Watch has seen little evidence of real change in Aruba.




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.

July 06, 2009

"ONWARD HO"--DUTCH CONFIRMS INVESTIGATION ON ARUBA


Ank Bijleveld-Schouten shouts to Oduber, et al.


Bijleveld confirms investigation on Aruba--"No Matter What"


WILLEMSTAD/THE HAGUE — No matter what, an independent investigation will be carried out in order to get a more systematic view on the status of the government on Aruba.


State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten of Kingdom Relations (CDA) confirmed this once again today in a letter to the Lower Chamber on the eve of a general consultation on July 1st. She is assuming that based on last week’s conversations with amongst others, the Aruban Minister President Nelson Oduber (MEP), a communal investigation order as yet could be arranged.


“This and that should appear within short. If it turns out that this cannot be done together with Aruba, then the National Council of Ministers will be the commissioner for such an investigation”, Bijleveld wrote.


In her letter -where she looks back on her business trip to Aruba and CuraƧao from June 22nd, up to and including June 25th- Bijleveld emphasizes that she is worried about the judicial upholding and good governance on Aruba.


“I consider it important to carry out an independent investigation in order to obtain a more systematic view of the situation on Aruba”.


She said she made agreements with Oduber on the drawing up of a plan of approach as how to crystallize this factual investigation. “From this factual investigation it must become obvious which measures are required by Aruba, or if the worst comes to the worst, by the Kingdom to improve the public administration and the constitutional state.”


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