If this is so surely it would be in print somewhere. Where did the Fox reporter get his info. This would be a big story, in print somewhere.
The Fox reporter didn't say where he'd gotten his info about plummeting tourist trade, maybe he called a few hotels and discovered there had been numerous cancellations. Or maybe he has a travel agent source or two. But the speed with which this was 180'd the next night indicates Fox didn't want this emphasized. (They might have worried that they'd be told to leave the island, and then there goes a very hot story. Or even more likely, they thought the island would join in and help find N if negative things weren't discussed.) The truth is nobody wants Aruba's tourist industry to suffer, esp. since so many people's livelihood depends on it. People who had nothing to do with N's disappearance, many of whom have probably searched long and hard for her. We just hope that N turns up and there's evidence enough to convict her killer if she's dead.
Sagging tourist trade being in print, as a big story, I don't know. I can see editors not wanting to touch that side of it, not wanting to make a bad situation worse, esp. when the family is still there hoping to get N back. They could print it later on, when she's found or turns up. Since it seems Aruba has a dark underbelly, like the rest of the Caribbean, that nobody talks about, the drug trade, white slavery/prostitution rings...you get the impression nobody wants bad news spread around. The image of an island paradise is everything. A friend of mine went there several years ago, and was told not to go anywhere without the tour guide, that some parts of the island weren't 'safe'. She had a great time, too. Loved Aruba and wants to go back.