The Grenada Tourism Authority has introduced that the Caribbean island nation’s 2022-2023 cruising season has formally began.
The season commenced on Friday, October twenty first with the arrival of Superstar Summit, which carried 1,500 passengers to the port. 202 cruise calls are scheduled for Grenada this season, with an anticipated passenger depend of 377,394. This represents an 11 % enhance from the busy 2018-2019 season.
“Grenada is prepared for the 2022-23 cruise season. In preparation, the GTA has facilitated coaching and workshop classes targeted on skilled improvement, hospitality and cultural engagement classes, aimed toward enhancing service excellence.
Cruise tourism gives advantages for port locations together with boosted income, job creation, skilled improvement, and cultural change. The season boosts the revenues of native companies reminiscent of taxi corporations, tour operators, native spice and craft distributors, artisans, and eating places.
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“Grenada is prepared for the 2022-23 cruise season,” stated CEO of the Grenada Tourism Authority Petra Roach. “In preparation, the GTA has facilitated coaching and workshop classes targeted on skilled improvement, hospitality and cultural engagement classes, aimed toward enhancing service excellence.”
“That is a part of an general technique to make sure our tourism stakeholders reminiscent of taxi operators, artisans and distributors are ready for the season and can present top quality, culturally sound {and professional} providers that improve our vacation spot advertising and marketing. Many cruise guests are repeat guests who select to return to the locations the place they’ve had the most effective and most genuine experiences.”
Talking throughout the opening ceremony on the Melville avenue welcome heart, The Honorable Lennox Andrews, Minister of Tourism, was optimistic in regards to the progress within the cruise sector. “Through the years, our workforce on the Grenada Tourism Authority has established a superb community of trade companions in addition to varied private and non-private stakeholders and collectively they’ve all collaborated to take full benefit of the advantages of the cruise trade.”
Tourism officers in Grenada predict the 2022-2023 season to be one other milestone yr for the nation.
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