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LOCAL Tuesday 12 January 2021

Aruba Tourism Authority (A.T.A.):

What to expect for 2021

ORANJESTAD — Since the constantly changing situa- There are three Key Indica- The situation is and will re- Obviously the main focus is
reopening of our borders tion globally. tors for 2021: Projections for main changing. Aruba on the vaccine for a relief.
the Aruba Tourism Author- the recovery of Cruise Tour- opened 2021 with a lock- But, this also will take some
ity (A.T.A.) has been work- For North America, which is ism is between 25 % and down of the United King- time. Besides all this, the de-
ing on different forecasts of one of the biggest contrib- 50 % for 2021 compared to dom with the consequenc- sire of travelling in our tour-
what could be expected utors of Aruba’s tourism, it 2019. The so called Tourism es of cancellations of the ists remains strong amid all
on the amount of tourists is anticipated that they will Credits is expected to have Non-Stop flights, which measurements implement-
visiting our destination. The continue to be the biggest a recovery of 45 % to 60 % started in December 2020. ed.
projection for 2021 is a very contributor with a market compared to 2019 and the Also, more and more coun- A.T.A. would like to thank
optimistic, conservative share of 80 %, followed by Average Daily Rates (ADR) tries are requiring a nega- all their partners and or-
and cautious one. Europe and Latin America lead to a grade of recov- tive test result prior depar- ganizations working untir-
with 5 % and all other coun- ery of 75 % compared to ture of our visitors back to ingly for Aruba’s tourism
For 2020 there were three tries and islands with a 3 % 2019. their country. These restric- recovery. Collective and
forecasts: Optimistically market share. It is important to remark that tions are limiting our visitors individual responsibility is of
seen the year would have the recovery of Aruba’s in their travels. To our main main importance to ensure
ended with a 40 % re- For the cautious scenario Tourism will not go to nor- contributor which is North the recovery of tourism and
covery of the total visitors a recovery of 45 % is pro- mality for now, the recov- America the amount of in- the economy of Aruba.
compared to 2019 and in jected which is a total of ery will happen in stages creasing Covid-19 cases Adhering to all protocols
the conservative forecast 515.190 visitors for 2021 and in 2021. The utmost is being is a big challenge and the stated by all departments
it would result into a 30 % for the optimistic scenario is done for the speed recov- concerned government concerned is everyone’s
recovery. In the worst case a 60 % recovery projected ery but caution and good is taking measurements responsibility only then we
scenario a 20 % recovery which is a total of 658,184 behavior of each and ev- which make travelling will be able to overcome
was foreseen. The results visitors for 2021. ery one is needed seeing more and more difficult. this virus and help Aruba’s
for 2020 are known by that the virus is still around. economy flourish again.q
now and you can see that
Aruba recovered a 33% of
the total visitors compared
to 2019. Just a bit over the
30% projected percentage
forecasted by the World
Tourism Organization (UN-
WTO) for the global tour-
ism which forecasted a
70% decrease compared
to 2019. Most visitors de-
cided to postpone their trip
based on the advice given
worldwide to avoid travel-
ling and stay home.

For 2021 the numbers of
2019 were taken into ac-
count to compare this and
here we can see that the
projections conduct to a
tourism recovery for Aruba
between 45 % and 60 %.
Up till now Aruba is in line
with the projected fore-
cast which indicates a 50%
recovery for 2021, but off
course it all depends on the