Cruises’ dollars bypass locals
Posted: October 21, 2012 at 2:29 a.m.
Street vendor Paul Davy sells wooden statues to tourists from Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas cruise ship in Falmouth, Jamaica, in September.
Tourists emerge by the hundreds from a towering, 16-deck megaship docked at the Caribbean’s newest cruise port. They squint in the glare of the Jamaican sun, peer curiously at a gaggle of locals beyond a wrought-iron fence and then roar out of town on a procession of air-conditioned tour buses.
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Business, Pages 69 on 10/21/2012
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