Aruba Statistics
The following are the preliminary May 2012 hotel performance figures for Aruba derived from
the reports submitted to AHATA.
The numbers are the aggregate figures for 13 properties including all the major hotels.
May 2012
2012
Rooms
3,743
ARN
116,033
ORN
84,811
% occupancy
73.1%
ADR
$166.31
Rev Par
$121.56
Based on data from 13 properties.
2011
3,968
123,008
90,388
73.5%
$154.86
$113.80
2012/2011
% change
-5.7%
-5.7%
-6.2%
-0.4%
points
7.4%
6.8%
In summary: Average room occupancy was down 0.4 percentage points from 73.5% in May 2011 to
73.1% in May 2012.
 This is with 225 fewer rooms however, a 5.7% reduction on available room nights
 The overall number of occupied room nights decreased by 6.2 per cent.
 ADR was up 7.4% from $154.86 in May 2011 to $166.31 in May 2012.
 With the lower average occupancies but higher average daily room rate, revpar grew by
6.8% from $113.80 in May 2011 to $121.56 in May 2012.
Please note that the Holiday Inn has 221 rooms out of inventory for at least the whole of 2012 (if
not 2013) and the overall room inventory of the sample has been reduced from 3,968 rooms to
3,743 rooms.
Of the 13 hotels: 5 hotels saw higher occupancies this May compared to May 2011, with 8 seeing a lower
average occupancy.
 8 saw higher average daily rates, and 5 saw their ADR lower than for May 2011.
 7 saw a higher Rev Par in May 2012 than in May 2011 with 6 showing a lower revpar.
Year to date:-
Year to Date thru May 2012
Rooms
ARN
ORN
% occupancy
ADR
Rev Par
Based on data from 13 properties.
2012
3,715
564,554
454,949
80.6%
$228.73
$184.33
2011
3,942
596,069
476,491
79.9%
$219.24
$175.26
2012/2011
% change
-5.8%
-5.3%
-4.5%
0.7%
points
4.3%
5.2%
For the first five months of 2012 average room occupancy is up 0.7 percentage points from
79.9% in 2011 to 80.6% in 2012 (with 5.3% fewer available room nights). This translates into
4.5% fewer occupied room nights. ADR is up however by 4.3% with revpar also up, by 5.2%.
The overall ATA visitor numbers for May 2012 based on Immigration card data are as follows:
Aruba: Total Visitors May 2012
USA
Canada
Venezuela
Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
Netherlands
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Sweden
Other
Total
Source: ATA
2012
%
43,393 65.7%
2,225
3.4%
6,630
10.0%
1,215
1.8%
983
1.5%
946
1.4%
3,013
4.6%
324
0.5%
1,793
2.7%
137
0.2%
66
0.1%
5,332
8.1%
66,057 100.0%
2011
%
43,869 67.2%
2,645
4.1%
5,127
7.9%
1,423
2.2%
994
1.5%
796
1.2%
3,032
4.6%
223
0.3%
2,181
3.3%
312
0.5%
67
0.1%
4,599
7.0%
65,268 100.0%
%
change
-1.1%
-15.9%
29.3%
-14.6%
-1.1%
18.8%
-0.6%
45.3%
-17.8%
-56.1%
-1.5%
15.9%
1.2%
Aruba: Total Visitors YTD May 2012
USA
Canada
Venezuela
Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
Netherlands
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Sweden
Other
Total
Source: ATA
2012
236,847
23,362
42,283
8,057
5,730
5,251
16,987
1,666
2,555
983
2,992
23,004
369,717
%
64.1%
6.3%
11.4%
2.2%
1.5%
1.4%
4.6%
0.5%
0.7%
0.3%
0.8%
6.2%
100.0%
2011
241,336
23,727
34,627
8,559
5,799
3,743
16,417
1,248
3,111
2,661
2,909
21,036
365,173
%
66.1%
6.5%
9.5%
2.3%
1.6%
1.0%
4.5%
0.3%
0.9%
0.7%
0.8%
5.8%
100.0%
% change
-1.9%
-1.5%
22.1%
-5.9%
-1.2%
40.3%
3.5%
33.5%
-17.9%
-63.1%
2.9%
9.4%
1.2%