Caribbean island scheduled to receive a total of 81,050 visitors in 2015-2016 season
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Rebecca Gibson |
Carnival Cruise Line is to take 10,642 passengers to Tobago in 2016, bringing the total number of cruise visitors scheduled to visit the island in the 2015-2016 season to 81,050.
Carnival Miracle, Carnival Dream, Carnival Glory and Carnival Sunshine will all visit the island.
“Based on feedback from our guests and travel agent partners, we’re delighted to offer these longer length voyages which provide vacationers an opportunity to visit some of the world’s most breathtaking destinations, while enjoying all the wonderful onboard innovations and features found aboard Carnival’s ships,” said Terry Thornton, senior vice president of itinerary planning at Carnival.
Tobago will be part of a Carnival itinerary that features call in St Maarten, Dominica, Barbados, Scarborough, Grenada, Martinique, St Kitts and St Thomas.
“This year we saw a 200% growth in cruise ship guests coming to Tobago and next cruise season we are again going to see double digit growth,” said Tracy Davidson Celestine, Tobago’s Secretary of Tourism and Transportation. “We have to prepare for more passengers, we need to ensure that when the guests come here we have enough activities for them, whether that means tours, craft, food, water sports, we need our people to be entrepreneurs. We can only create the opportunities it’s for the people of Tobago to now take advantage of them.”