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General Manager Paul Gielen invited a group of North American Meeting & Incentive Travel Executives to visit the Renaissance Marina Tower and join him for lunch at the L.G. Smith Steak & Chop House.
Following a comprehensive tour of his fully renovated resort guests enjoyed a choice of Petite Spinach Salad and Tomato Cream Soup with [...]

Mylene Marques, Associate Director of Sales and Mary Donohue Director of Group Sales, welcomed Karl Wentzel, Regional Sales Manager and Vicky Perez, Group Sales Manager/Wedding Coordinator, to their ranks.
While Vicky is headquartered at the Radisson here, Karl is working for the resort in the US. Vicky is a well-known hospitality executive in Aruba and she [...]

A group of top decision-makers in the meetings and conventions market recently visited Aruba for an action-packed extended weekend.
ECO Destination Management partnered with Ventanas del Mar at the Club House of Tierra del Sol Golf Resort & Spa to host the dignitaries for lunch.
While the décor was entrusted to ECO Destination Management, who created a [...]

The Links at Divi Aruba, boats a beautiful, well stocked Pro Shop offering golf equipment and accessories, men’s and women’s apparel and other quality merchandise.
Among brands on display at the Pro Shop Ashworth, Bobby Hones, Nick Price, Oackley sunglasses, Titleist balls, and hats, Ralph Lauren Golf, Polo Golf, Nike, E.P. Pro, Fairway & Greene, Cobra [...]

A group of corporate Renaissance decision makers went on a jeep safari in the Aruban wilderness, competing in three teams, for the ultimate prize of getting to know the island inside out. The safari was organized by de Palm Tours and took the dignitaries, who did all the driving themselves, along country roads, to the [...]

 
As things can sometimes go on our little island, rumor had it that the pier at Surfside was damaged by the recent Tropical Storm Omar and that Pinchos Grill & Bar is therefore out of business. This is definitely far from being true.
While the pier behind Pinchos Grill & Bar was partially lost, Pinchos had [...]

ECO Destination Management of Aruba orchestrated a very pleasant afternoon at Ventanas del Mar restaurant featuring a food & wine pairing with Clive Faustin of the Wine Barrel.
Guests, all distinguished members of a Marriott Corporate Familiarization Trip enjoyed the ambiance created by ECO’s decoration experts, and obviously relished the idea of spending the afternoon sipping [...]

Restaurant Manager Michael Ras and Sales & Customer Service Coordinator Francois Maduro hosted a taxi appreciation afternoon at L.G. Smith’s Steak & Chop House in honor of some of Aruba’s ever-helpful taxi drivers.
Francois reports that over the past six months the restaurant tracked the performance of taxi drivers delivering patrons to the popular heart-of-town steakhouse.
As [...]

It has just recently been confirmed that DAE and TIARA Air agreed, in principle and subject to further concord on detail, to enter into a joint venture.
 
This historical and unprecedented move on behalf of both companies is also unique in the aviation business in the Caribbean.
 
The venture will initially offer a major route — AUA-CCS-AUA [...]

 
 
Gloria Estefan, Cuban American singer and songwriter performing to a sold out stadium this weekend at the Entertainment Center, as the headliner of the Aruba Music Festival, mixed a bit of pleasure into her business when she arrived with her husband of 33-years Emilio, at the Flying Fishbone Restaurant, also meeting some local fans, and [...]