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                                                                                                           local Tuesday 1 November 2022

            A Flight to the Future

            DCCA’s 1st International Sustainable Air Transportation event



            ORANJESTAD – “The month  N.V., as DCCA Chairman.          week,  speeches  and  pre-
            has  finally  arrived  where                              sentations  will  be  given,
            the    Dutch    Caribbean  The      Dutch    Caribbean  panel  discussions  will  be
            Cooperation  of  Airports  Cooperation  of  Airports  held,  masterclasses  will  be
            (DCCA) will kick off the 1st  (DCCA) is cooperation be-   provided, and daily electric
            International   Sustainable  tween all six Caribbean Air-  flight demonstrations will be
            Air Transportation event - A  ports within the Kingdom of  performed with the Pipistrel
            Flight to the Future – being  the  Netherlands.  DCCA’s  Velis  Electro  at  Aruba  Air-
            held  between  6-11  Octo-   objective is to improve the  port. The Pipistrel Velis Elec-
            ber 2022.                    general  quality  of  each  tro is the 1st certified elec-
                                         individual  airport  by  facili-  tric aircraft in the world. The
            “We  are  excited  to  wel-  tating  mutual  assistance  knowledge  shared  during
            come  both  local  and  in-  and  efficient  exchange  the  week  of  the  event  will
            ternational attendees from  of  information,  transfer  of  be different each day. Key
            the  Dutch  Caribbean  is-   knowledge  and  sharing  of  themes will be:
            lands, The Netherlands and  expertise  with  the  goal  of  Discover the Undiscovered,  Velis Electro up close.     ing entities that in one way,
            the  (Latin)  America  region  achieving  economies  of  focusing  on  Sustainable  Participants  to  A  Flight  to  or  another  will  positively
            to  share  knowledge  and  scale. DCCA aims to pres-      Aviation;                    the  Future  event  include  impact travel between the
            create dialogue on the fu-   ent future focused alterna-  Built  for  Experience,  focus-  a  wide  variety  of  local  islands in the (near) future.
            ture of aviation and also on  tive  air  transportation  op-  ing on Sustainable Tourism,   and  international  stake-
            interisland  connectivity  in  tions to improve interisland  Pushing  the  limits:  chang-  holders  within  the  aviation  Free  virtual  registrations
            the  Dutch  Caribbean.  We  connectivity  between  the  ing the Future, focusing on  and tourism industry of the  are  still  available  for  the
            are honored to be able to  Dutch  Caribbean  Islands  Sustainable  Airport  Opera-     Dutch  Caribbean  islands  event  which  is  set  to  be
            host this event in Aruba and  and is organizing the 1st in-  tions,                    and  the  wider  Latin  Amer-  livestreamed  via  YouTube
            are  more  than  proud  to  ternational  Sustainable  Air  Reality Check, focusing on  ica  &  Caribbean  region.  on  November  7  through
            have the first electric flights  Transportation event called  current  Research  and  In-  These  include  airport  col-  November  10,  2022.  For
            in  the  Caribbean  with  the  - A Flight to the Future - in  vestments,               leagues, airline CEOs, tour-  more  information  on  the
            Pipistrel  Velis  Electro  per-  Aruba  from  November  7  and  Connecting  Genera-    ism  authorities,  Civil  Avia-  event  and  the  virtual  reg-
            formed  during  that  week”  through 11, 2022.            tions, which will give the lo-  tion  authorities,  education  istration,  please  visit  our
            said  Joost  Meijs,  CEO  of                              cal community the chance  partners, environment part-     DCCA  website  www.dc-
            Aruba    Airport   Authority  During  the  entire  event  to  experience  the  Pipistrel  ners and persons represent-  caairports.com .q


              As part of the diversification strategy
              Aruba Tourism Authority working on Latin American market



              ORANJESTAD – Recently, a  with discussion of strategy
              delegation of Aruba Tour-   for  2023  and  tactical  ac-
              ism  Authority  was  in  Bo-  tion which the market de-
              gota,  Colombia  to  com-   fined. The goal for 2023 is
              plete  a  wide  schedule  of  to  attract  the  visitors  that
              meetings  and  other  im-   spend  the  most,  and  to
              portant  encounters  with  attract  a  total  of  3  per-
              colleagues  of  ATA  Latin  cent  more  visitors  from
              America (LATAM).            the region. The budget for
                                          2023  and  the  strategy  for
              The  week  of  meetings  among other 5 markets of
              opened  with  an  internal  LATAM  (Brazil,  Argentina,
              encounter  between  ATA  Chile, Peru and Colombia)
              Aruba and ATA LATAM. Af-    were also discussed.
              terwards the focus was on
              2022,  with  agencies  also  This  was  the  last  meeting
              present. It is expected that  of  Miriam  Dabian  as  di-
              2022 will close with a total  rector of Tourism Office of
              of  85,000  visitors  from  the  Latin  America.  A  special   ATA  to  express  gratitude  market.             around 100,000 visitors ev-
              region.                     encounter with great par-   and  emphasize  the  com-                               ery year (during non-pan-
              The  schedule  continued  ticipation  which  allowed    mitment of Aruba with the  There  were  also  meetings  demic  years).  This  market
                                                                                                  with  Aruba’s  airport,  with  continues  being  reestab-
                                                                                                  Avianca,  Wingo  and  Sar-  lished after the pandemic.
                                                                                                  pa. The focus continues on
                                                                                                  reestablishing  the  capac-  For  2023,  ATA  expects
                                                                                                  ity  that  was  seen  in  2019.  positive  results  due  to  the
                                                                                                  The  focus  also  continues  different factors on which
                                                                                                  on new hubs in Colombia,  they     will   be   working,
                                                                                                  as has been the case this  among  others,  strategy,
                                                                                                  year.  After  the  collapse  marketing  and  more  air
                                                                                                  of  the  Venezuelan  mar-   connection.q
                                                                                                  ket,  Latin  America  brings
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