Originally posted by: rahvin
Originally posted by: kogase-
Cough. What should they do, inject mini tracking devices into your ass? Provide a private armed chaperone for every single tourist who sort of just decides he wants to go to Aruba?
If they want US tourism they should do whatever is necessary to protect said tourists, if that means providing armed guards at the beaches and restricting the movements of tourists or simply providing penalties such that no one living on the island would commit the crime.
Lets have an example, on Barbados it is illegal to wear camoflauge. It is illegal because some individuals a number of years ago were kidnapping and robbing tourists while pretending to be the millitary. To prevent a loss of tourism Barbados made it illegal to wear camoflauge to protect their tourists.
What it comes down to is what Aruba is going to do to protect their tourists, as I said it's a fairly upscale island because it recieves a larger percentage of that tourism than some of the other islands. If it doesn't want to lose that tourism it should impliment laws and security necessary to protect the tourists.