Pacific Cruise Ship Season Begins with California Liner
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Puntarenas tourism industry is happy with the start of the cruise season. The Island Princess docked Wednesday and became the first visitor of the season. The boat has San Francisco, California, as a home port.
The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo estimates that there will be more cruise ships visiting Costa Rica this season. Some 122 are scheduled for the Pacific, and the total is expected to exceed the 238 that visited at both ports last season.
There were 1,947 passengers on the Island Princess.
They were greeted with a ceremony put on by the Municipalidad de Puntarenas with the mayor, Agnes Gómez.
Last year nearly 320,000 cruise passengers visited Costa Rica counting both the Pacific and Limón. The high season for cruise ships runs through April on the Caribbean and through May 15 on the Pacific.
The tourism institute said it welcomed the creation of the Asociación Costarricense de la Industria de Cruceros, formed in August, to develop better services for the visitors. Members are many of the tourism operators in the area.
i love watching cruise ship travel and specially when they are crossing the panama canal. it resembles the hardship and team work of man.. not only this, shipping companies does also offers cruise ship jobs opportunities around the world.
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