Cape Town set for record cruise tourist season

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Industry injected an estimated R1.2bn into the Western Cape economy in the last financial year, with around 90 000 passengers and 38 000 crew members expected to step ashore in the current year.

For the first time in history, Friday saw two of the world’s most famous cruise liners – the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Victoria – dock in the Port of Cape Town at the same time.

The area now includes a food market with restaurants and coffee shops, a small craft gin distillery, and a brewery.South African ports are currently benefitting from vessels avoiding the Red Sea as Yemen-based Houthi rebels targetcontainer, cruise, and other ships that would normally use the Suez Canal to access or head back to Europe.

Bob Dixon, director of sales for Cunard Line, the Southampton-based shipping company that owns the ‘Two Queens’, among others, told Moneyweb its passengers rate Cape Town “exceptionally high”.

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