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AHATA:

2022 average RevPAR is lower than in 2019

AHATA member hotels:
Amsterdam Manor Beach
Resort, Barceló Aruba,
Boardwalk Boutique Hotel,
Brickell Bay Beach Club,
Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort,
Courtyard by Marriott, Divi
& Tamarijn All-Inclusive, Ea-
gle Aruba Resort, Holiday
Inn Resort Aruba, Hyatt Re-
gency Aruba, Hyatt Place
Aruba Airport, Manchebo
Beach Resort, Marriott
Aruba & Stellaris Casino,
Paradera Park, Rehoboth
Peaceland Boutique Hotel,
Renaissance Wind Creek
Aruba Resort, The Ritz-Carl-
ton Aruba, RIU Palace Aru-
ba, RIU Palace Antillas, Talk
Oranjestad - The Aruba ADR: In comparison to 2019, of the Town Hotel.
Hotel & Tourism Association the average daily rate AHATA member time-
has published the latest ho- (for occupied rooms) in- shares: Divi Aruba Phoe-
tel performance data re- creased by 22% to $289.64. nix, Divi Dutch Village, Divi
porting that in August 2022 RevPAR: The revenue Village Golf, La Cabana,
Aruba hotels continued to per available room was Marriott Ocean Club, Marri-
recover strongly, however- $238.52, which is a 15% in- ott Surf Club, The Mill Resort.
the average RevPAR of the crease over 2019. AHATA member vacation
first 8 months still stayed rentals: Aramis Real Es-
below 2019 levels. Year-to-date 2022: tate, Aruba’s Life Vacation
Occupancy: The average rate (for occupied rooms) Residences, Aruba Happy
August 2022: occupancy for the first increased by 9% to $310.05. Timeshare: Rental, Casiola Aruba,
Occupancy: The occupan- eightmonths of 2022 was RevPAR: The revenue AHATA’s Timeshare proper- Cobalt Blue Fusion (Blue,
cy rate was 82%, which is a 74%, which is 14% lower per available room was ties experienced a 86% oc- Azure), Ford Property Man-
recovery of 95% compared than in 2019. $229.31, a 7% decrease cupancy rate in August. agement, Turibana Plaza,
to 2019 occupancy rate. ADR: The average daily from 2019. Santa Lucia Landhuis.q

Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language

Oranjestad — Papiamento, Creole version, where the Portuguese and which was taken east by the thou- Verdean language), speaking
language of ABC (Aruba, Bonaire Spanish, each claim the direct ori- sands of cable - Verdeans (linings their Creole and we ours. There-
and Curacao) is from the Cape gin of Papiamento), in fact, this is and slaves, already Christianized fore, Papiamento, PapiCristang,
Verdean Creole family (Cape not true. Papiamento is not direct and speaking Creole) who served PatuáMacaense and the creoles,
Verdean language) and was tak- from Portuguese, Galician or Cas- as sailors and “slaves of arms′′ in said of Portuguese origin, Daman,
en to the Caribbean in the 9th cen- tilian, it is from the Cape Verde Portuguese caravels, demanding India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, some
tury by the Cape Verdeans of that Creole family (Cape Verdean the east. locations in the Philippines and
time (linings and slaves), experts language). You can see this best- some places in Indonesia, are cre-
in cane culture and sugar produc- when it's saying obscene words I don't know why the official history oles of the language family Cape
tion, and who were hired by Jewish and offending someone, precisely of Portugal usually omits this fact, Verde Creole (Cape Verdean lan-
entrepreneurs who went to invest in as they say today in both ABC and which is in the chronicles of the guage) and indirectly the Galaico-
this business in the Caribbean. Cape Verde islands. quinrentist chroniclers, but which Duriense or Galaico-Portuguese, a
we never saw in the history of Por- language that the people spoke in
Cape Verdeans taught this pre- The obscene words kept the origi- tugal that we study from primary Portugal in the 6th and 7th century.
industrial revolution technology nal, had no lexical influence ei- education to higher education.
(planting cane and producing ther from Castilian or Dutch. Also However, it has always been tried Anonymous
sugar, which they had learned the PapiCristang of Malacca, the to deceive us, in colonial time, that Source: Dushi Aruba
from Madeirans) to slaves from Patuá of Macau, and several cre- we were descendants of Viriato
other African regions, and did so in oles from the east (from Daman, (Iberian hero in the fight against
their language, Cape Verde Cre- Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Philippines, In- the Romans) and the pastors of the
ole (Cape Verdean language) , donesia) and Africa (Casamança, Hermini Mountains, but not much
hence the language implanted in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone and Ni- speaking of our black-African an-
Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. geria, these last two releases to the cestry.
English), all originated in the Creole
Unlike many interesting stories, of Cabo Verde (Cape Verdean We Cape Verdeans understand
wanting to link Papiamento direct- language), which was the French each other very well with these
ly to Portuguese, Galician or Castil- language spoken in Portuguese Antillans and Easterns, whose
ian (see Papiamento, on Wikipedia feitories on the coast of Africa language is from the same Cre-
- Portuguese version and Spanish (from Senegal to Sierra Leone), and ole family of Cape Verde (Cape