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An aerial view of the Cayman Islands. Grand Cayman may reduce cruise traffic from pre-pandemic levels once its borders reopen, the Caribbean nation s Premier Alden McLaughlin said this week.
According to the Cayman Compass newspaper, McLaughlin said that the government had received a clear signal from both the business community and local citizens that they wanted fewer cruise passengers to visit the islands. In 2019, 1.8 million passengers visited Grand Cayman, according to the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), making it one of the busiest cruise ports in the Caribbean.
The Cayman Islands is one of the few Caribbean islands still closed to U.S. visitors. It has no published timeline for reopening.
/PRNewswire/ The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis is leading a new travel and tourism age in 2021. While other resourceful countries continue to struggle.
Nathan Dundas remembered as a “major player in the local and regional cruise tourism industry
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Co-workers, media professionals, political figures and others reacted with shock on Sunday after news broke of the death of General Manager of Bryson’s Shipping and longstanding President of the Antigua and Barbuda Cruise Tourism Association, Nathan Dundas.
A statement from the Geo. W. Bennett Brysons & Company Limited yesterday confirmed that Dundas died sometime on Saturday January 24
th, 2021 while he was receiving care at a hospital in the United States.
Geo. W. Bennett Brysons & Company Limited is the parent company of Bryson’s Shipping and Insurance and Bryson’s Money Transfer.
Royal Caribbean cruises return to Trinidad and Tobago
15th January, 2021, Port-of-Spain: After an absence of almost a decade, Royal Caribbean Cruises has placed on its itinerary a schedule to return to Trinidad and Tobago for its 2021/2022 cruise season.
Globally, cruises have been halted on account of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cruise industry is collectively hopeful and preparing for the re start of cruising, and for the Caribbean- wide re-opening of borders with the concomitant health protocols. Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas has forecast its return to the welcoming ports of Port of Spain and Scarborough as part of their Southern Caribbean itinerary.