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of Tourism Dangui Oduber Originally a 100% recovery was projected said materials, as well as names,
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2019. adjusted to a projected recovery of 85%. with that text (including your
According to the Minister, Omicron was the name and where you are from) Last but not least: check out our
Compared to 2019, tour- culprit of the decrease in the outlook, but to: news@arubatoday.com website, Instagram and Face-
ism recovered 72% in 2021, we still have time to recover from this set- and we will publish your vaca- book page! Thank you for sup-
making 2021 a pretty good back. We can still achieve this by taking the tion memory. Isn’t that a special porting our free newspaper, we
year for tourism. The chart proper steps and calculating risks as we all way to keep your best moments strive to make you a happy read-
illustrates the number of depend on tourism.q alive? Please do note: By submit- er every day again.q
visitors per month during
2021. One of the important
indicators is the tourism
receipt. This is the money
spent in the local economy
by the visitors. The tourism
receipt for 2021 surpassed
the one of 2019, meaning
that we had fewer visitors
indeed, but they spent
more than those in 2019.

Cruise tourism remains af-
fected by the pandemic. It
was not until 2021 that we
saw the first Cruise ship in
Aruba. This industry started
slowly but is gradually mov-
ing forward.

In December 2021, 48,209
cruise passengers vis-
ited Aruba compared to
126,452 visitors in Decem-
ber 2019. It entails a 61,9%
decline in cruise tourism.
The number of calls was 35
in December compared to
50 calls in December 2019.
In 2021, Aruba received
136,211 cruise ship visitors
compared to 832,399 in
2019, which is an 85% de-
cline. In 2021, there were
96 calls compared to the
324 calls in 2019, a drop of
70,4%. The latest reduction
in tourism is due to the rap-
id spread of the Omicron
variant. In the first week of
2022, Aruba registered a
decrease of 25% to 30% in
visitors. Airlines like Frontier
Airlines and Air Canada
have also suspended their
flights to Aruba. There have