MSC to target the UK

Private Italian line MSC Cruises is to expand its ex-UK presence over the next three years.
The line’s CEO Pierfancesco Vago revaled that 2,000-passenger MSC Lirica would be deployed in Dover in 2009 after the company makes its ex-UK debut next year with MSC Armonia.
This will be followed in 2010 with a “larger new ship”, according [...]

Grand Cayman tourism woes?

A recent letter to the Cayman Island News by a concerned local
“Dear Sir,

Constructing a massive, imposing Ritz monstrosity right in the middle of once-tranquil Seven Mile Beach was the straw that broke the back of Cayman’s dwindling visitor market. Not only do all of the decades of loyal visitors loath the imposing structure but more [...]