Cruise arrivals start year with 6% increase

(CNS Business): For the first time since April 2011 the number of cruise passengers arriving in George Town in a given month increased on the previous year’s figure. In the first month of this year 186,485 people arrived in Grand Cayman on board cruise ships, compared to 175,536 last January. The figure is the largest number of January arrivals since 2008 and represented an optimistic 6.2% rise in arrivals. Meanwhile, arrivals at the airport fell very slightly for the first time in many months. 215 less passengers flew into Owen Roberts International in January 2012 when compared to 2011, despite a promising increase of 224 passengers from Europe. Read more on CNS Business