Caribbean hotel officials: Cruise ships need to pay their fair share of taxes
May 15, 2012
Hoteliers are generally optimistic that 2012 will bring a modest recovery to Caribbean tourism arrivals, but at a recent conference in San Juan, there was plenty of grumbling that for too long, hotels have been shouldering an unfair tax burden when compared to the cruise industry.
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SJ cruise port makes it into ‘million-passenger-club’ list
April 27, 2012
The San Juan cruise ship port has made it into an elite group of 16 such facilities around the world that welcomed more than a million passengers last year, rubbing shoulders with major U.S. mainland and European cities.
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Haiti’s Tourism chief: ‘We’re ready to receive niche markets’
January 24, 2012
Last year, Haiti received around 600,000 foreigners — half of them “diaspora Haitians” visiting family and friends. The other half was largely business executives and representatives of NGOs. This excludes the 600,000 cruise Haship tourists who called on Labadie, Royal Caribbean’s private island off the north coast of Haiti.
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Tourism expecting more than 1.2M cruise ship visitors in ’12
January 18, 2012
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company is ramping up efforts to increase cruise ship visitor traffic to the island this year, predicting that more than 1.2 million cruise ship passengers aboard 493 vessels will dock in Old San Juan in 2012.
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Haiti’s ambitious tourism development plans could spark competition for P.R., other islands
October 25, 2011
New hotels, cruise-ship projects and tourist facilities are all on the drawing board for Haiti as it struggles to attract foreign investment and recover from the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince and destroyed the island nation’s fragile economy nearly two years ago.
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P.R. making waves to sway cruise ship business
August 31, 2011
While commending the current administration’s “follow-through” attitude toward the cruise ship industry, Michele Paige, president of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association said Puerto Rico has a lot to gain from the trade group’s upcoming 18th annual conference happening in San Juan in October.
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New cruise ship incentives law signed
July 5, 2011
The cruise ship industry, a cornerstone of the island’s tourism economy, will be getting expanded incentives and benefits when anchoring in Puerto Rico, following the approval of a sweeping law that will also favor the distribution chain, service providers and tour operators.
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Fortuño administration files new cruise ship industry law
May 25, 2011
Slightly more than a month before the island’s current cruise ship incentives law expires, the Gov. Luis Fortuño administration filed Wednesday a new bill that would expand the scope of benefits offered to a sector that generates $245 million for the local economy.
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