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Harvest Caye Is Not End all For Norwegian
posted (January 16, 2017)
Friday's news was full of stuff from the House meeting, but there are two items of note we didn't get to include. The first has to do with the Harvest Caye Cruise Terminal. The PUP Representative for Toledo West, Oscar Requena, who is also the PUP's Shadow Minister for Tourism, asked the current Minister Manuel Heredia about those Norwegian Cruise Ships which are now bypassing Belize city and making a bee-line for Harvest Caye. There's been a lot of complaint from Belize City Tour Operators who say that losing Norwegian and its well-heeled guests - has translated into a major loss in earnings for them. Heredia responded by saying Norwegian is not bypassing the City:...

Hon. Manuel Heredia Jr., Minister of Tourism
"What Prime Minister and I agreed, we are keeping to that promise. NCL continues to call to Belize and will continue to call in this 2017 also and I can quote you the numbers. In 2014, NCL had 64 calls to Belize City. In 2015, they had 72 calls. In 2016, they had 96 calls, which is 30% of the total calls. 79 of those calls were to Belize City and 17 to Harvest Caye."

"If for some reason NCL decides to pull off and go completely to the south which you all will be getting a lot more people, there are 2 other cruise lines that are ready interested and will be paying a few calls this year. That is the TUI Cruise Lines, European Cruise Lines and the MSE Cruise Lines which is always willing to take the vacuum if anything. So the numbers for Belize City would not decrease, rather it will increase."

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