November 17th, 2003 By Karyn J. Bilezerian for the Boston Herald
Bostonians clearly have a love affair with Aruba. It seems like nearly everyone here knows at least someone who makes regular pilgrimages.
It’s not suprising when you consider that, according to the Aruba Tourism Authority, more than 54,000 Boston-area residents visited Aruba last year, making Beantown the island’s second-largest tourism market after New York.
What inspires such devotion to a 70-square-mile vacation locale? After all, there certainly are closer places to visit – Puerto Rico, Bermuda and the Bahamas, to name a few – that, like Aruba, offer sun, beaches and water sports. So just what is it that gets provincial Bostonians to make the nearly five-hour flight from Logan (longer if you have to switch planes in Miami.)?
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