Locals of popular cruise destination risk losing | Travel News

David Candib, vice president of port operations for Carinal Cruise Line, mentioned on the September convention that the company has already begun slicing back on journeys to the Cayman Islands.

Instead, it’s specializing in locations with berthing ports such because the Bahamas, Honduras, Jamaica and Mexico.

“Since the introduction of the larger ships for the Carnival fleet we have seen a reduction in calls to Grand Cayman, so ships that were tendering here, for example from Galveston, have been replaced and aren’t calling on Grand Cayman,” Candib mentioned on the September convention, per native stories.

“We are building larger ships, and we have made an operational decision that those ships won’t call on destinations that are tender ports. With 6,500 up to 8,000 guests and then another 1,500-2,000 thousand crew, it’s just not something that we as a company or an industry are doing with those types of ships.”

He added, “We’re doing that because we need the certainty. We want to continue to call on Grand Cayman, our guests love visiting Grand Cayman, but over time certainly, the ability of all our ships to be able to call here is likely to end.”