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Aruba Is Having Another Big Tourism Year, With New Hotels, More Flights, and a Serious Jump in Visitor Arrivals

The beaches are full. Reservations are flowing into hotels across Palm Beach and Eagle Beach. Visitors are filling waterfront restaurants in Oranjestad and heading south to Baby Beach, where Aruba’s newest resort has opened its doors. The momentum is showing up in the numbers, too. Aruba welcomed 427,343 stayover visitors between January and March 2026, an 8.9 percent increase over the same period last year, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization provided to Caribbean Journal. The first-quarter results make Aruba one of the Caribbean’s strongest-performing touri...