CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES CUTS VISITS TO BELIZE!

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES CUTS VISITS TO BELIZE!

Finally this week, Carnival Cruise Lines cut two floating package hotel visits to our beautiful Belize this week. We don´t want to tell them how to run their business, but perhaps they should consider helping us out further and cutting their floating hotel package cruises to Belize, a total of 50% of current visits, and maybe going to smaller vessels.
We appreciate this considered action on the part of Carnival Cruise lines this week. Belize is way too small and all these NEW gargantuan cruise ship floating International Corporate hotels have overloaded our infra-structure and service capability in the country of Belize. Much as we appreciate the little dribble of the few dollars into the economy coming from their business, the cheap package tourist cruise ship floating hotel business, brings in people who spend too little. All they want are cheap things, budget items, and surveys have shown their cheap customers do not want to spend more than $5 usa on a local souvenier during a visit. A $10 usa purchase is a big item to Carnival Cruise line tourist customers. Very few of them spend anything at all, having budgeted everything to be spent on board the floating hotel. This does not even pay for the toilet paper they use when on land. Still, we do appreciate the advertising for our jewel of a tourist destination, presented by Carnival Cruise Lines and we hope their customers will come again, but as week long overnight visitors instead.
We do appreciate Carnival Cruise Lines cutting their ship visits, it is a good solution to an ongoing problem in our small society. Perhaps they can take their customers to Puerto Rico, or Alaska, or the Turkish island coast, the Adriatic and the Yugoslavia coast, or some place else?
The rapid massive growth in the world cruise ship, floating tourist hotels, in the case of Belize, has put our heavily mortgaged shuttle water taxis serving cruise ships, in danger of losing their homes and boat, to debt servicing. The expansion of gargantuan floating hotels called cruise ships, offering budget all inclusive packages might be good for these International floating hotel corporations, but they would be better to go someplace else more suitable. Perhaps our government can set a rule on the size of cruise ships allowed to visit our much desired tourist destination.
It is possible that our government can build a second cruise ship destination in Belize, down in the Southern part of the country. At least Deep River should allow a dock for cruise ships to come along side? Since our country is already being run on FOREIGN LOANS and such a dock would cost more loans, perhaps our government can arrange to have Carnival Cruise Lines build the dock and our government credit monies spent, to tax write offs, on future visits? Or some such deal, were we do not have to borrow money ourselves as a country to facilitate this uncontrollable, highly risky and volatile cheap business?
Anyway, THANKYOU Carnival Cruise Lines for your courtesy in cutting ship visits. We appreciate the sentiment.