In a February, 2008 appearance on
Fox News, Boycott Watch
President Fred Taub discussed how tourism was down in Aruba while Neil Cavuto
reported skyrocketing tourism numbers. While that may have been confusing
to some viewers, Fred Taub and his numbers were vindicated today in a report by
Natalee Holloway and true-crime blogger
Michelle
Simonsen where she quoted an Aruban official admitting Aruba paid American
Airlines a bribe to keep flying to Aruba despite low tourism.
In Michelle's report, Aruba claims the low tourism
numbers were because of terrorism and terrorist threats, but that clearly means
boycotts in English. The fact is that Aruba denied the affect of the boycott
inspired by the disappearance, and we believe murder of Natalee Holloway. In
fact, Aruba first claimed that tourism was up when the numbers were actually
down in light of the boycott, a story Boycott Watch broke by exposing a Central
Bank of Aruba report showing the Aruba economy shrinking between six and eight
percent when Aruba tourism officials claimed tourism was up ten percent.
Later, when Joran Van Der Sloot was exposed as
having a direct link to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, there were
several media reports of vandalism at the Van Der Sloot home by people who were
hurt economically by the Aruba boycott, all the while Aruba was still reporting
record tourism numbers. A few months ago, however, Boycott Watch reported that
Aruba finally admitted Aruba lied and that Boycott Watch was right about their
tourism reports all along.
Today we have the new
revelation that Aruba bribed American Airlines, and probably others airlines as
well to keep their flight schedules, no doubt because Aruba did not want to
admit to actual lower tourism numbers. As a corollary, Boycott Watch believes
hotels must have been bribed to block out rooms as well to create the illusion
of sold out vacation packages, which explains why hotel rooms were booked when
airlines tickets were sold, apparently to ghosts, and this news has caught up
with politicians in Aruba who are appear to be running like rats from a sinking
ship as the Dutch government investigates the Aruba leadership.
By bribing airlines to fly empty planes to Aruba,
Aruba maintained the appearance of high tourism numbers while the airlines
still made money on those flights, probably calling their flights booked. This
correlates to the time Aruba claimed to be "investing" in its infrastructure to
boost tourism, and Boycott Watch now understands what that those investments
were. "I remember hearing news reporters saying they were unable to get hotel
rooms in early 2008 which contradicted my reports of few tourists shopping in
Aruba, and the reason is now clear - hotel rooms were made unavailable so
potential tourists felt urgency to book hotel rooms, and to fool the reporters
- Aruba created an artificial demand - Aruba lied again, and we are busting
them again" said Fred Taub of Boycott Watch.
Previously, Boycott Watch also reported how a double murderer escaped from an
Aruba jail because Aruba is so incompetent, that they left a large ladder
inside the jail so every prisoner could escape. "The incompetence in Aruba is
staggering" commented Fred Taub. To erase the stigma of the Natalee Holloway
disappearance, Carlos and Charlies, the bar Natelee was last seen in, has had
its name changed to "Senior Frog's," but Boycott Watch has seen little evidence
of real change in Aruba. |
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