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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

T&T gets over 17,000 cruise visitors in 2024-2025 season

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The Enchanted Princess Cruise Ship during her inaugural arrival at the Cruise Ship Complex, Port-of-Spain in December.

The Enchanted Princess Cruise Ship during her inaugural arrival at the Cruise Ship Complex, Port-of-Spain in December.

ANISTO ALVES

There were 17,317 vis­i­tors to Trinidad via cruise ships dur­ing the 2024-2025 cruise sea­son.

This was con­firmed by Tourism Trinidad fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the 2024-2025 cruise sea­son on April 11, 2024.

Tourism Trinidad said the in­au­gur­al vis­it of the Odyssey, a res­i­den­tial cruise ship op­er­at­ed by Vil­la Vie Res­i­dences, “high­light­ed Trinidad’s com­mit­ment to wel­com­ing in­no­va­tion and new trends with­in the cruise sec­tor, such as the grow­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty of res­i­den­tial cruis­ing. The Odyssey is an in­clu­sive res­i­den­cy ship booked by fam­i­lies, pro­fes­sion­als, re­tirees and more for up to three and a half years, al­low­ing them the op­por­tu­ni­ty to tour the world with all the com­forts of home on­board.”

Tourism Trinidad said there was a to­tal of 17 cruise calls, eight of which were in­au­gur­al calls with two new cruise lines com­ing to Trinidad.

The re­lease stat­ed, “Trinidad played host to a wide range of ves­sels, from large ocean lin­ers to small­er bou­tique ships, re­in­forc­ing the des­ti­na­tion’s ver­sa­til­i­ty and its abil­i­ty to cater to a va­ri­ety of trav­ellers, whether seek­ing ad­ven­ture, cul­ture, or re­lax­ation.

A key pil­lar in en­hanc­ing the cruise pas­sen­ger ex­pe­ri­ence this sea­son was the con­tin­ued suc­cess of Tourism Trinidad’s Vis­i­tor Am­bas­sador Pro­gramme, the on­ly ini­tia­tive of its kind in the Caribbean. This ded­i­cat­ed team of trained tourism cus­tomer ser­vice am­bas­sadors played an in­stru­men­tal role in shap­ing first im­pres­sions, of­fer­ing warm wel­comes, per­son­alised guid­ance, and ex­pert rec­om­men­da­tions on what to see, do, and ex­pe­ri­ence while in Des­ti­na­tion Trinidad.”

Act­ing man­ag­er of Tourism Trinidad’s Re­search, strat­e­gy and mar­ket­ing di­vi­sion, Dahlia Zai­da Mo­hammed said, “We at TTL are in­cred­i­bly proud of the strides made in en­hanc­ing the vis­i­tor ex­pe­ri­ence and el­e­vat­ing Trinidad’s stand­ing as a pre­mier cruise des­ti­na­tion in the Caribbean. The ar­rival of the Odyssey is a fit­ting fi­nale to a sea­son that was de­fined by ex­pan­sion and re­newed part­ner­ships.”

Tourism Trinidad said the 2024–2025 cruise sea­son has seen grow­ing mo­men­tum for cruise tourism in Trinidad, with en­cour­ag­ing signs of ex­pan­sion across the sec­tor. —Pe­ter Christo­pher


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