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A16 LOCAL
Monday 16 april 2018

Conference ‘ARUBA MEETS EUROPE 2018’

ORANJESTAD – The inter- Spain and Curacao.
active conference Aru-
ba Meets Europe 2018 is Tonight will be the kick-off
about to start. Participants reception, followed by the
are tour operators, air- opening of the confer-
line representatives, ho- ence Tuesday morning.
tels and representatives of President Evelyn Croes-
Aruba itself, all dedicated Wever and Minister of Tour-
to promote the island as ism Danguillaume Oduber,
vacation destination in Eu- as well as CEO of A.T.A.
rope. This year, more than Ronella Tjin Asjoe-Croes
55 participants of different will start with a welcome
countries will join. speech.
The first conference day
The main objective of AME enhances presentations
is to inform the tourism in- of A.T.A., AHATA and AAA.
dustry with the latest up- The conference will last un-
dates on Aruba, its prod- til April 20 with a varied pro-
ucts and development. gram and interesting con-
Besides that for the first- tent for the participants.
comers the conference This conference is orga-
will serve as introduction of nized bi-yearly and one of
Aruba as vacation destina- the elements is the Vitrina
tion. The conference is or- Turistico or Tourism Window
ganized by Aruba Tourism where participants can in-
Authority (A.T.A.), Aruba teract with local represen-
Hotel and Tourism Associa- tatives within the tourism
tion (AHATA) and Aruba industry to set up possible
Airport Authority (AAA). collaborations.
Participating countries are Another part of the pro-
The Netherlands, Belgium, gram will be the visits to
Germany, Italy, Finland, several resorts. In the pic-
Denmark, Ireland, United ture the participants of
Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, AME 2016 are shown.q