Record cruise season expected in St Kitts

Wednesday, 25 Sep, 2014 0

St Kitts is forecasting a bumper cruise season ahead with the island surpassing one million cruise passengers for the first time.

The St Kitts tourism board has high hopes for the forthcoming 2014/2015 cruise season, and if it reaches its target, it would represent a 31% rise in numbers compared to last year.

Tourism leaders point to a raft of new ships making ports calls during the season.

The island’ Port Zante cruise terminal will receive six calls from Royal Caribbean’s soon-to-be-launched Quantum of the Seas and Disney Cruise Line returns to St Kitts for the first time since 2009.

The Disney Magic scheduled to make four port calls during the season.

Inaugural calls are also being made by Oceania Cruises’ Insignia and Norwegian ships Gem and Pearl for a combined seventeen calls.

"The fact that we will be welcoming this record number of cruise passengers to St Kitts is testament to our tourism infrastructure and to the partnerships that our destination has forged with industry stakeholders," said tourism minister Ricky Skerritt.

"Our performance must be examined against the backdrop of the development of a wealth of onshore activities based on our nature, rich history, and friendly people." he added.

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