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Revitalising the Caribbean
Financing and other issues have ahead with a range of cruise provides a useful `introduction’ for the 2011/12 winter season
led to delays in the Royal tourism projects despite reporting to the parts of the Caribbean for and would be designed to
Caribbean International (RCI)- a downturn in passenger spend first-time visitors who may encourage passengers to
backed plan to turn the run-down during the current global subsequently return for longer walk from the port right into
Jamaican port of Falmouth into a recession. land-based stays. the town centre.
key call for the line’s new But despite tough times, the With this in mind, many Also, the revitalisation of
225,000-ton Oasis-class ships. development of cruise tourism destinations remain intent of downtown Curacao in the Dutch
This will now be expected to continues to be viewed as a top boosting their appeal to cruise Caribbean is nearly complete
ready about a year behind priority for the sunshine islands, ships and their passengers with while the West Indian Dock
schedule at the end of 2010 and in partly because they depend on a host of developments, in St Thomas is being
time for the second Oasis vessel, high-spending passengers for a including the redevelopment of expanded, also to handle
Allure of the Seas. Other ports in large part of their income, and St John waterfront in Antigua, Oasis ships.
the Caribbean are also ploughing partly because cruise tourism which could completed in time
New destination opens up in Asia
Royal Caribbean International will take Asia-bound passengers to ports
most cruise ships don’t reach with a series of imaginative Oriental
itineraries aboard Legend of the Seas, which will be based in the Far
East year-round in 2010.
New to the company’s line-up of base ports for cruises in the region
is Yokohama in Japan, which joins Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore
Cruise Baltic builds connections
as a starting point for cruises. And unusual ports of call - including
Vladivostock, Miyazaki, Nagoya and Hualien - are expected to appeal to
travellers who like to explore off the beaten track.
In a series of initiatives to build vessels visiting ports members
relationships with cruise lines and which included Rostock, Stock- Sailing into motor city
travel agents, the Cruise Baltic holm, Helsinki, Tallinn, St. Peters- America’s `motor city’, Detroit – home to the Motown music
association of 26 ports, were joint burg, Copen-hagen and Oslo. phenomenon and a key call on Great Lakes cruising itineraries – is
sponsors of the 2009 Cruise Representatives were invited to investing US$15 million on a new public dock and passenger terminal
Convention held in Dover this June. attend from environmental due to open in 2010.
In the previous month, Cruise Baltic groups, port, community and The new two-tier facility – set on the Detroit River and offering quick
linked with the European Cruise government groups, maritime access to downtown Detroit – will be able to accommodate vessels with
Council to set up ship visits to 8 organisations and local media. capacity for up to 420 passengers.
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