Cruise Tourism
Bumper year for cruise passengers
(CNS): After years of falling cruise passenger arrivals, the Cayman Islands witnessed a significant boost in the number of ships and passengers calling on the jurisdiction in 2014. Despite not having the cruise piers, 1,609, 555 people on 562 ships arrived in the jurisdiction over the 12 months, according to Port Authority statistics — a […]
Travel industry eyes Cuba
(CNS Business): Share prices in the major cruise lines rose following President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that the US plans to re-establish diplomatic ties with Cuba. A ban on commercial tourism from the States remains in effect, with only certain travelers from the United States permitted into Cuba, but the industry giants are eyeing […]
Cruise tourism continues to grow
(CNS Business): As promised by the tourism minister, the dire decline in cruise ship numbers has been reversed with figures suggesting that 2014 could be the best year for the sector for a decade. In October 111,951 passengers arrived in George Town on 37 ships the best numbers for this month since 2003 and 32.44% […]
Tour operators grizzle over weekend sandbar rules
(CNS Business): Small tour operators say that they are not benefitting from the increase in cruise ships visiting Cayman at weekends because the major operators are getting the bulk of the business as a result of limits on commercial trips to Stingray City and the Sandbar. In an effort to both ease the pressure in […]
August cruise arrivals up 57%
(CNS Business): So far this year, cruise ship passenger arrivals are up 17.27% on last year’s figure, with the numbers for August showing a significant rise of 56.78% to 105,936 passengers (up from 67,571 in 2013) from just 16 ships. Year to date cruise arrivals are 17.27% higher in 2014 versus 2013. Air arrivals for the month […]
Cruise line eyes bigger slice of the pie
(CNS Business): Royal Caribbean’s ‘Double-Double Program’, a new three-year profitability initiative that aims to double earnings per share and increase the company’s return on capital to double-digits by 2017, may have a negative impact on cruise ports, including Grand Cayman, according to a Canadian academic who researches the cruise industry. Memorial University of Newfoundland Professor […]
Public consulted on daylight savings
(CNS Business): The Cayman Islands Government is considering whether it would be beneficial to adopt Daylight Savings Time (DST) – the practice of adjusting clocks one hour forward during the longer summer months, and back again in the fall – and is inviting the public to give their views on the subject by the end […]
Bimini cruise dock putting reefs in peril
(CNS Business): The traditional livelihoods of fishing, diving and snokelling on the tiny island of North Bimini in The Bahamas are under threat from the construction of a thousand-foot cruise dock built to accommodate day trip passengers from Florida. Phase one is complete but residents and environmental activists say the silt produced during the dredging […]
Cayman cruise arrivals up 80% in July
(CNS Business): While stay-over tourism figures showed healthy growth for July 2014, cruise ship arrivals for the month rose by 79.63% over the figure for July 2013, with more than 120,000 passengers, up from almost 67,000 last year, according to the last statistics from the Department of Tourism (DoT). There has been a steady rise […]
Chamber seeks update on revitalization of capital
(CNS Business): The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce has asked Planning Minister Kurt Tibbetts for an update on the progress with his ministry’s plan to revitalize George Town. In a letter dated 25 August, the Chamber Council noted that construction started last week on a board walk near the public fish market in George Town, which was one […]
Former turtle farm provides example for CTF
(CNS Business): A former sea turtle farm in the Reunion Islands in the Indian Ocean has successfully transitioned into a respected research centre where groundbreaking science is conducted but remains one of the islands’ top tourist attractions. It also maintains the cultural heritage of the islands and their involvement with turtling, while continuing to employ […]
Turtle Farm not the sole focus of animal charity
(CNS Business): World Animal Protection (WAP), the international animal charity that has been critical of the Cayman Turtle Farm, doesn’t just focus on issues surrounding the CTF but deals with a range of different animal welfare issues around the world, ranging from the inhumane culling of dogs, the terrible conditions of farm animals in the UK […]
WAP has animal welfare concerns at the Turtle Farm
(CNS Business): Green sea turtles are wild animals and time after time attempts to farm then have proven that it just can’t be done in a humane way, according to Neil D’Cruse, head of Wildlife Policy and Research at World Animal Protection. Addressing the charity’s animal welfare concerns associated with the farming of green sea […]
Turtle Farm hiding behind ‘conservation curtain’
(CNS Business): The Cayman Turtle Farm claims to be a conservation facility. But World Animal Protection (WAP) representative Neil D’Cruze says those claims may not be true and there may be an element of a “conservation curtain that is being hidden behindâ€. He told CNS Business, “If you look at Cayman turtles nesting on the […]
Hospitality school aims to find students’ passion in tourism
(CNS Business): Marc Langevin, the GM of the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman and a member of the School of Hospitality Studies Advisory Council, said he was very confident that a student who goes through the new hospitality programme and establishes relationships within the industry and demonstrates they have the right character will have no problem finding a […]
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