• letmesleep@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    obliterate tourism industries for many major cities around the world

    Not really. Banning cruise ships would be bad for cruise ship companies. But for the port cities cruise ship tourists don’t do much. They may actually cost more than they bring in. The problem is that the tourists from cruise ships have food and shelter onboard for free. So local businesses don’t get much.

    Also: You can simply ban the cruise ships from running their engines in the harbor. Many are capable of getting their electricity via cables from shore. They just opt to not do that because it’s cheaper to use bunker oil. That doesn’t solve all the issues, but a lot.

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      The article paints a grim picture of the loss of cruise tourism.

      The International Monetary Fund predicts a 6.2% drop in GDP in the Caribbean region this year due to the tourism collapse

      This is catastrophic.

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        That was due to tourism collapsing because of Covid. It wasn’t about the cruise ships.

        The reason that getting rid of cruise ships tends to be good for the economy of places on land is that tourists can arrive by other means as well. It economics you’d say that cruise ships and all inclusive hotels are substitutes. You can pretty much replace one with the other and for the economy on land hotels are better.