Also, 80 percent of [the Cayman Islands] revenues come from financial services. If you just look at that, you might say well, [cruise tourism] is not really important.

Meanwhile, cruises don't have to pay port fees here, which lessens their operating costs. Private islands are generally built on "cays," or low-lying islands composed of sand or coral.

With cruise lines increasingly reluctant to transport guests to shore aboard ever-larger ships ashore via tender boats, the Cayman Islands, which lacks a fixed pier, has watched cruise arrivals ...

Carnival Cruise Line passengers vote against US ports originally appeared on Come Cruise With Me. With economic concerns and increasing political tensions on the mind of many U.S. travelers, it ...

With the imminent opening of Carnival Cruise Line's (CCL) new private destination, Celebration Key, on July 19, 2025, Carnival is no exception to cruise lines' private destination trend.

Cruise lines have had exclusive destinations for decades, but Royal Caribbean was the first to, "shall we say, put these private islands on steroids," said Patrick Scholes, a lodging and leisure ...

It's a strategy popular cruise lines are increasingly embracing. Private islands and beaches have popped up throughout the Caribbean, one of the world's hotspots for cruises.

Carnival Cruise Line has released their 2027 deployment for cruises to Alaska that include more than 50 itineraries on three ...

In Cayman right now 3.8 hours is what an average cruise tourist is [spending] here. There’s a significant amount of time on the ship, then the tender, then sitting at the Royal Walter [shoreside ...