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Thursday 9 January 2020

Aruba resort owner/CEO to be debut guest on Facebook live

EAGLE BEACH – Celebrated
hotelier and noted environ-
mentalist Ewald Biemans of
Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort
will be the first-ever inter-
viewee of Green Globe on
its debut Facebook Live
segment. Social media us-
ers can tune-in this Friday,
Jan. 10, 2020 as the inter-
national sustainability cer-
tification organization inter-
views the Aruban resident. banning single-use plastics. Aruba’s GDP. Considering
Bucuti & Tara was recently the island’s heavy depen-
Biemans will talk candidly recertified as Green Globe dence on tourism, Biemans
about the Eagle Beach re- Platinum, which is the 19th will share proven methods
sort’s sustainability journey year the property has for achieving business suc-
and be asked to share in- earned the rigorous certifi- cess while operating sus-
sights on how Bucuti & Tara cation. tainably.
achieved certification as Green Globe is at the fore- To listen live, visit Green
the first and only carbon- front of research and de- Globe’s Facebook page
neutral hotel in the Carib- velopment of best practic- this Friday, Jan. 10, at 10
bean. share how fighting climate island home of Aruba is es for sustainability particu- a.m. local Aruba time.
Throughout the discussion, change is a collaborative making progress with its sus- larly in the tourism sector, To learn more about the re-
Biemans is expected to effort and how the resort’s tainability initiatives such as which accounts for 90% of sort, visit Bucuti.com.q

Aruba to Me

ORANJESTAD – Aruba Today likes to For today’s newspaper we received some lovely pictures from Jim & Lin-
welcome readers to participate in our da Cunningham from Nahant, Massachusetts. They wrote to us:
newspaper. You can see that in our
Honored Guest-publications, specials
like on Valentine’s Day and on other “Aruba to us is…. ‘Welcome Home’
occasions. Throughout the year you
are always welcome to send us your “We fell in love on our first visit to Aruba in January, 1984. We got
vacation picture(s) together with com- married that September, 1984. We also fell in love with Aruba.
pleting the sentence: Aruba to me is We have visited Aruba just about every year since. 30+ times
…….. (Email: news@arubatoday.com) and always stay at the Divi All Inclusive where everyone there
always says “welcome home” on our arrival. We’ve traveled to
many other islands, but Aruba is our favorite!”q