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Visit Aruba Newsletter!
This section will be updated regularly, so keep coming back...
News
Briefs for January 1-31, 1999
- Food for thought....
According to Travel Management Daily, travelers from overseas
who visit cultural attractions in the U.S. tend to stay longer and spend more.
1999 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS!
Many people have been asking us about entry requirements
for US citizens after hearing conflicting advice from various sources. To clear this up we
asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to give us the nitty gritty. Visitors entering
Aruba from the United States must have in their possession ONE of the following documents:
- A valid US passport
- A valid "laissez-passer" from the United
Nations
- US citizens born in the U.S. must have a genuine
(original-official state issued) birth certificate with a raised seal and photo ID
- US citizens born outside the U.S. must have a genuine
(original) Certificate of Naturalization with a raised seal and a photo ID
- A resident of the U.S. (Non U.S. citizens) must have a
re-entry permit or an Alien Registration Card (Green Card)
(Source: Department of Foreign Affairs-Aruba)
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for full details/VISA requirements/customs regulations
Aruba news snippets
- Renovations, renovations, renovations……have been taking place at the Wyndham
Aruba Beach Resort & Casino, Casa del Mar Beach Resort and The Red Parrot Restaurant
at Divi.
- The Radisson will have its soft opening on April 19!. The main
tower is scheduled to open June 15 and the spa in the fall of 1999.
- ATEX 1999 will be cancelled but another trade event will be added under
the ATA/AHATA umbrella. The Aruba meets Europe event will be held March 21-25, and will
consist of brainstorming sessions and informative reviews for European tour operators.
- VASP, Brazilian airlines, will end their flights to Aruba in March. According to the
company the reason behind this stop is their lack of equipment.
- ATCA will take place March 25-28, 1999 while CATA will take place September 29-October 3
of this year.
- ATA's Marketing Plan 1999 is being distributed to all hotels, individually, by ATA's
marketing committee. The objective of this new approach for introducing the marketing plan
is to get a better, one on one, feedback from local hoteliers. According to, both,
hoteliers and the ATA team, this new approach is successful in its attempt.
- We were glad to hear that Continental Airlines will continue their flights with no
risk-sharing by Aruba. This means that ATA/AHATA's objectives for an increase in airlift
were met.
- CHA is being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this weekend. Mr. Jan van Nes, Managing
Director of ATA and Mr. Charlie Ibarra, Regional Director for ATA in the U.S. will attend.
- Starting April 1, 1999 American Airlines will implement an additional flight
Aruba-Miami-Aruba. Even though the exact timing has not been disclosed yet, we were
informed by American's head office in Aruba, that they will be providing two daily flights
weekly from Miami.
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Food for thought....
According to Travel Management Daily, travelers from
overseas who visit cultural attractions in the U.S. tend to stay longer and spend more,
according to a new study by the Commerce Department's Tourism industries office and
Taubman Centers, which develops and operates shopping centers.
The study called the group "culturalist shoppers"
and found they book their trips further in advance than "general shoppers", stay
nearly a week longer and visit more places. Compared with general shoppers, culturalist
shoppers spend 23% more on food and beverages, 22% more on entertainment and 14% more on
lodging.
New York and California are their favorite destinations.
The data was gleaned from 48,882 traveler responses to the Commerce Department's ongoing
in-flight survey of international airline passengers.
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ARUBA - A port of call for the
Millennium Yacht Race!
The Millennium Round the World Yacht
Race, is an event which offers sail aficionados a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sail the oceans of the world
aboard one of the magnificent Millennium fleet of 65ft. ocean yachts designed by Bruce
Farr & Associates Inc. (the world's foremost ocean race design company) to sail into
the 21st century.
The 10, identical, Farr Millennium 65' yachts will set sail from Portsmouth on October
10, 1999. The fleet is scheduled to arrive at the Seaport Marina on January 3, 2000.
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