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Visitor arrivals nosedived in the first three months of the year because of the pandemic, it was revealed yesterday. But tourism chiefs were optimistic that numbers could pick up later in the year as vaccination programmes around the world gather pac...

A cruise ship company is offering return flights from the US to Bermuda for as little as $99 return in a bid to attract passengers to its homeporting voyages. A report on Royal Caribbean Lines’ Royal Caribbean Blog, said Vicki Freed, the company’s s...

The recent spike in Covid-19 cases could hurt revenue for SailGP Bermuda, but the new CEO of the Bermuda Tourism Authority said the island still has much to gain from the event. Charles Jeffers II said that while organisers have scrapped plans for ti...

A brief summer cruise season with companies homeported in Bermuda stands to bring $40 million in economic impact, the transport minister revealed yesterday. Lawrence Scott said the announcement that Viking would join Royal Caribbean in launching trip...

Viking Ocean Cruises appears to have become the second cruise line to plan to use Bermuda as a home port with cruises which will take passengers out into the Atlantic Ocean and into the island’s three ports. Viking’s website is promoting six eight-d...

Cruise ship operator Norwegian has proposed resuming voyages from the US in July, with all crew and passengers 100 per cent vaccinated against Covid-19. It has also improved facilities on-board its ships, including introducing "hospital grade" air fi...

It was a honeymoon for the record books. Vincent and Trish Dyer left on a two-week cruise to the South Pole just as the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago. They then went through hell, stranded in the Pacific Ocean while countries refused to allow t...

Bookings are now being taken for a cruise on the Vision of the Seas which will be homeporting in Bermuda in June. Royal Caribbean announced recently that the cruise ship, docked in the British Virgin Islands, would homeport in Dockyard from June 26 f...

“In the cruise industry the term home port is also often used in reference to the port in which a ship will take on/change over the majority of its passengers while taking on stores, supplies and fuel.” “A cruise ship company yesterday announced...

A cruise ship sailing from a home port in Bermuda this summer is expected to make 12 voyages from Dockyard, Government revealed yesterday. Royal Caribbean announced on Tuesday that the Vision of the Seas, docked this week in the British Virgin Island...

A cruise ship company yesterday announced that it will homeport a ship in Bermuda offering seven day cruises to a private island in the Bahamas. A report in The Maritime Executive says that the move by Royal Caribbean International will start on June...

Cruise companies have expressed interest in the ’homeporting’ of ships in Bermuda, the transport minister Lawrence Scott told the House of Assembly yesterday. The minister said that there had been interest from a “small luxury line” drawn by the isla...