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Tuesday 21 June 2022

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Aruba welcomed 13.000 cruise visitors in the past week

ORANJESTAD – In the second week of June tour operators, restaurants and shops in-
2022, 13.000 cruise passengers visited creased their sales. Aruba is recovering
Aruba. These visitors cruised to Aruba on and progressing, and the government is
Carnival Horizon, Allure of the Seas, and confident that in 2022, tourism will recover
Explorer of the Seas. Cruise tourism plays to the same levels as in 2019.
a vital role in the recovery and progress of
the economy of Aruba. Despite being in the "low season" for cruise
tourism, we can look back at a successful
That is why the authorities have been fo- week with a substantial amount of cruise
cusing on expanding the tourism markets. tourists. In November 2022, a new cruise
ship will start visiting Aruba.
The Minister of Tourism Dangui Oduber is
pleased with this week filled with cruise More information will follow.
tourists enjoying our island.
Tourism remains our principal driver of the
A week in which taxi drivers were busy, economy.q