The Carnival Sunrise cruise ship is the latest to arrive in Ocho Rios with approximately 1,700 cruise passengers onboard. Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, stated that “this will be the third cruise ship arrival following the reopening of cruise tourism in August 2021. The schedule for the cruise season had been agreed on with Carnival Cruise Line prior to the […]
Cruise shipping in the Caribbean is set to return June 12, 2021, with the sail of global cruise giants Royal Caribbean International which will set sail from new home port, Nassau, The Bahamas. The cruise line, the second biggest in the world behind Carnival, has announced a summer line-up of seven-night cruises on board ‘Adventure of the Seas’, where “vacationers […]
Trapped in Japan on a coronavirus-virus cruise ship, hundreds of U.S citizens were permitted to leave and return home. The two planes carrying the U.S. passengers landed at a U.S. Air Force base in California and Texas, respectively. They will be quarantined at the military base for a period of two weeks before they can return to their families. There […]
Jamaica’s tourist arrivals for the first half of this year exceeded the corresponding period last year with the island received over 2.1 million visitors between January and June. The arrivals are an increase of 3.9 percent over the same period last year. The figure comprised nearly 1.2 million stops over arrivals and more than 978,000 cruise visitors. Meanwhile, the tourism […]
