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Cruise ships in George Town Harbour, Grand Cayman
Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell said 2015 has potential to be the best year yet for tourism in the Cayman Islands. Cruise passenger arrivals for the month of January already show a 7% growth over the number of passengers Grand Cayman greeted last year, the www.cnsbusiness.com (Cayman News Service) website reported.
Deputy Premier, Moses Kirkconnell, Minister of District Administration, Tourism and Transport
“Our arrivals in both stayover and cruise were strong. For stayover, for example, our numbers showed 11% growth year over year while the average in the region was 5%” Kirkconnell explained. “We are pushing for a 4% to 5% growth in stayovers this year.”
The 2014 statistics show a little more than 1.6 million people came to Grand Cayman by a cruise ship but the Department of Tourism is forecasting over 1.7 million passengers visiting this year.
George Town
Six cruise ships had to keep sailing past the Cayman Islands in the month of February due to weather but the minister is confident the tourism industry can make up that loss throughout the year.
“If those six ships had stopped, 21 thousand passengers we would have had in February we lost,” he stated. “Improving the Spotts Dock and having the berthing piers would have salvaged some of those – not all of them, but they would have been a help.”
When it comes to tourists making their way to the Cayman Islands, whether it’s by boat or by plane, it’s not by mistake, Kirkconnell said. “We try to do events to bring people on the island during off months of the year, like the Cayman Cook-off and different events that we can advertise internationally,”
Kilde / Source: Cayman News Service – www.cnsbusiness.com
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