Fall 2006: Aruba, the multilingual cosmopolitan Dutch Caribbean country is facing her challenges of geographic location with pride.

The cruise industry is very important to Aruba’s economic development and yes the statistical data showed that although with a decrease of 50% in cruise calls in June 2006, it recorded an impressive increase of over 10% in cruise guests compared to June 2005.

Aruba’s cruise data showed that for the first half of 2006, a modest decrease of 14.6% in cruise calls was recorded, however an increase of 6% in cruise passengers arrivals was merit.

The fabulous increase of 6% was due to the fact that Aruba welcomed 321,114 cruise passengers over the first six months of 2006 compared to 302,893 cruise passengers over the same period of 2005.

Aruba offers a variety of adventure shore excursions to cozy ambience, fine dining and nightlife entertainment options.

Remarkably, Aruba being on the cruise itinerary was the leading factor why the cruise guests chose the cruise vacation and our data showed 62.3% were interested to return to Aruba either by air or on another cruise vacation.