Jacky Croes new Sales director ATA
Jacky Croes is appointed Sales director for the North-American market effective January 1st.
ARUBA – Aruba Tourism Authority (ATA) has appointed Jacky Croes as Sales director for the North-American market. This is a new position at ATA. Croes is going to manage all sales activities in the United States and Canada. The first thing she did since her appointment is modernizing the www.meetingsaruba.com, making it easier to surf the web and look for information.
As Sales director, she has to do with all the sales leaders and sales teams that work in North America. Since the fall of 2005, she is also director at the Aruba Convention Bureau (ACB). She has already attracted several MICE-groups (meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions) to Aruba. With the valuable experience that she had gained since, she can now set to work as Sales director.
The Sales director for North America plays an important part in the growth of tourism to Aruba. Croes will have to make sure that the Aruba Certified Experts continue to have the newest means in order to promote Aruba. ATA’s director Myrna Jansen is very satisfied with Croes; she says that Croes can push Aruba in the right direction and help the tourism-figures go up.
Croes was senior manager at the Marriott and the Holyday Inn before she became director at ACB and ATA.
The new modernized website lists ten reasons the choose Aruba as vacation- and business destination. It has tips on hotels and accommodations for business people.
She also wants to modernize www.aruba.com and add information that is of interest to travel agents.
Country Aruba with no government
ARUBA – Prime Minister Nelson Oduber (MEP) came down with the flu.
He hasn’t been at work for an entire week, but he yet tried to work as much as possible from home.
Some of the other ministers are abroad, which means that the council of minister does not have the required quorum and no decisions can be made.
Vice-Prime Minister Marisol Tromp of Education, Social Matters, and Infrastructure is in the Netherlands for private matters;
Eddie Briesen of Tourism and Transportation is in Europe;
Justice-minister Rudy Croes is just back from being gone for week-and-a-half.
Minister Nilo Swaen of Economic Matters and Finance is in Aruba but is busy moving.
The ceiling of his old office almost came down on him, thus he is moving to the Codemsa building in Cumana. Even though he physically can already move to this new office, his phone does not work yet and the ministry cannot function optimally.