Parade cruises to St Kitts’ Port Zante to November begins on Wednesday with visiting Norwegian Jewel 92,000 tons of Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL).

This will be the first time that the Bahamas-registered cruise ship, which has a passenger capacity of 2376 passengers and crew of 1100 will visit St. Kitts.

Well-said information sources Norwegian Jewel will come from Tortola at 7:00 am with 2410 passengers and will leave at 4:00 am, spending Thursday in the sea and docking in Curacao on Friday.

According to information from the Marine Division of St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority SCASPA), a total of 24 ships with a capacity of about 52,000 passengers scheduled to dock in 25-day cruise in November.

Among the ships was 108,000 tons with a capacity of Ruby Princess 3100 passengers, while passengers Ventura 3100; 2680 passenger Carnival Miracle; 3473 passenger Carnival Triumph; 2681 Mercury passenger; the Serenade of 2500 passengers and 2450 sea-passenger Millennium.

Also scheduled to visit Port Zante is Arcadia 2388 passengers, while passengers 2388 Ocean Village 2; 1692 passengers Ocean Village; 1950 passenger Norwegian Dawn and the 2600-passenger Queen.

Cruise ship like the smaller 255-passenger Royal Clipper; 400 passenger Silver Shadow; 820 passengers and 308 passenger Braemar Windsurf call has been scheduled in November.

Analysis of the impact of passengers, crew and cruise line spending by Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association, on 26 cruise destination during the period May 2008 to April 2009 showed that the cruise tourism pumps U.S. $ 44 million or EC $ 118 million into the St Kitts and Nevis economy during the year 2008/2009 cruise.

The survey shows that the cruise passengers who come to the beach to spend a total of U.S. $ 33 million or EC $ 89.1 million. The crew is down to spend a total of U.S. $ 7.8 million or EC $ 21.6 million, while cruise lines spent U.S. $ 3 million or EC $ 8.1 million in St. Kitts and Nevis during the survey period.

St. Kitts and Nevis from 24 leading 29 goals in terms of average expenditure per cruise passenger is U.S. $ 99.41 or EC $ 268.40.

FCCA numbers based on the survey also showed that in St. Kitts and Nevis, expenditure in the year 2009 by each passenger increased to U.S. $ 33.20 (EC $ 89.64) compared to U.S. $ 5.40 (EC $ 14.50 ) in 2006, increased 514 percent and expenditures crew in St. Kitts and Nevis increased to U.S. $ 7.80 (EC $ 21.06) in 2009 compared to U.S. $ 0.40 (EC $ 1.08) in 2006, a 1850 percent increase in defeat.

Crew visited St. Kitts and Nevis spend an average of U.S. $ 142.14 or $ 383.77 EC, the third highest spending levels crew of 29 goals and seventh highest among the 29 destinations in the crew a total expenditure of U.S. $ 7.8 million or EC $ 21 million.