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Wednesday 26 June 2019

Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort named

First-Ever Hall of Fame Inductee at CHTa Chief awards

EaGLE BEaCH, aruba – June 25, 2019 – The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism as- neutral. In August 2018, Bucuti & Tara became the first Caribbean hotel
sociation (CHTa) introduced its Hall of Fame with the induction of Bucuti to achieve and be certified for carbon neutrality. Led by owner/CEO
& Tara Beach Resort as its first honoree. at the CHTa Caribbean Hospital- Ewald Biemans, a well-recognized eco-pioneer in the region, the resort
ity Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF), held June 21-23, 2019 in Miami, FL, was recognized for its 30+ years of sustainability best practices.
owner/CEO of Bucuti & Tara received the Hall of Fame award for Best
Practice for Environmental Sustainability. In its mission to encourage other hospitality businesses to become sus-
tainable, Bucuti & Tara hopes that its continued recognition will inspire
CHTA is committed to advancing the quality, sustainability and profit- others to ask them for help. Biemans is often invited locally and world-
ability of the tourism industry in the region. The CHIEF Awards annually wide to be a panelist or guest speaker about sustainability. The resort’s
recognize successful practices that CHTA member hotels and tourism- Green Team routinely hosts school students and dignitaries from other
related enterprises have adopted in any of the following four categories: countries to teach them about best practices and how to implement
Business Operations, Environmental Sustainability, Sales and Marketing, them successfully.
and Social Responsibility.
Five members from Bucuti & Tara attended the educational, informa-
“You can learn a lot from Bucuti,” noted Bevan Springer, president of tive conference and the award ceremony. Biemans is known throughout
Marketplace Excellence, as he emceed the evening’s award ceremo- CHTA for not only being a source of sustainability and hospitality knowl-
ny. In announcing Bucuti & Tara’s Hall of Fame Award, Springer noted, edge, but also for having never missed a CHTA CHIEF or Marketplace
the resort has done “outstanding work with their success earning all kinds event. He believes these CHTA forums are highly educational for himself
of awards for hotel performance and environmental standards.” and staff, and an ideal setting for exchanging ideas to help one another
in the Caribbean region.
In 2017, Bucuti & Tara won the CHIEF Award for Environmental Sustain-
ability. At the time, the resort was well on its way to becoming carbon To learn more, visit Bucuti.com.q

Fruit Loose

Fresh fruits make a tropical holi- This fruit is highly recommended
day’s picture complete. Whether to treat lung infections and urinary
you see the mango’s hanging in tract infections. It also helps to cure
the trees or the fresh fruit cocktail insomnia and rejuvenates the ner-
on the side table of your pool bed, vous system. Season: the fruit typi-
the link is there: you are in the trop- cally ripen during the summer.
ics. aruba grows her own fruits and
veggies and there are some pretty Druif
out-of-space local species you There is no chance you did not
may never had heard of, but really bump into one of the sea grape
healthy and delicious. trees while spending your vaca-
tion on Aruba. The sea grape plant
Kenepa is often used in ocean-side land-
Ovoid green fruit that grows in scaping in sandy soil right on the
bunches on trees up to 30m high. beach and it produces clusters of
The fruit is related to the lychee fruit that resemble grapes. Are sea
and have tight, thin but rigid skins. grapes edible? Yes, they are. Ani- constipation. Season: Sep-Oct. characterized by long, brown
Inside the skin is the tart, tangy, or mals enjoy sea grapes and humans shells. Inside is a sticky, fleshy, juicy
sweet pulp of the fruit covering can eat them as well, and they are Shimaruku pulp, which is the Tamarind fruit.
a large seed. The pulp is usually used to make jam. They contain Maybe Aruba’s most popular wild Both sweet and sour in taste, the
cream or orange colored. Kenepa very low calories and sugar, en- fruit tree. You may have noticed fruit contains a significant level of
strengthens the immune system, abling good bacterium to digest cars at the side of the road and vitamin C, as well as vitamin E, B
and prevents the reproduction of food and excrete waste quickly people picking those red berries. vitamins, calcium, iron, phospho-
bacteria and viruses in the body. which is effective in preventing
Well, that’s Shimaruku. The local rous, potassium, manganese, and
habit to stop for these delicious dietary fiber. There are also a num-
fruits goes from generation to gen- ber of organic compounds that
eration. Its fruit’s degree of sour make tamarind a powerful antioxi-
depends on the amount of rain it dant and anti-inflammatory agent.
gets. Red Shimarukus tend to taste Season: March.q
better than orange. The fruit has
super power: a true vitamin bomb.
Adults only need to eat 3-4 of these
berries to meet their daily recom-
mended amount of Vitamin C.
Season: Rainy months (Oct-Jan).

Tamarind
A delicious, sweet fruit that has a
wide variety of uses and applica-
tions, both for medicinal and culi-
nary purposes. It is a medium-sized
bushy tree with evergreen leaves
and fruit that develops in pods