Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

Abstract

Mini-Review: Planning and Preparation for Cruising Infrastructure: Cuba as a Case Study

John Nyberg* and Matthew Rice

Assessing the environmental, cultural and economic impacts of the Cruise Line Industry (CLI) is an important step in ensuring the long-term sustainability of a destination. With proper planning and implementation, tourism has the potential to make positive contributions to destination ports for the long term. Caribbean islands have been popular cruise destinations for CLI tourism for many years, including American cruise tourism to Cuba when the U.S. government allows it. In order to assess and minimize the impact of CLI tourism on destinations, it is important to conduct marine near-shore and land near-port analysis on the ports used by CLI. This paper provides a short review of Planning and Preparation for Cruising Infrastructure: Cuba as a Case Study and how it determines the potential CLI impact on Havana, Cuba’s port and near-port infrastructure as compared to similar Caribbean destinations, including the methodologies used to do so.

Published Date: 2021-05-20; Received Date: 2021-04-29