Playing Off the Ports: BC and the Cruise Tourism Industry
Description:... But without a the Government of Canada, and Purposeful Development and Cruising Out of coordinated and intelligent Control: The Cruise Industry, the Environment, Workers and the Maritimes. [...] In 2004, its tourism agency published a handbook to instruct communities on how to attract and orchestrate cruise ship visits,14 and it is working directly to attract cruise ships even though visits are erratic and often cancelled.15 At the other end of the hemisphere, Punta Arenas, Chile, is under pressure to lower the fees it charges cruise ships in order to be more competitive with nearby Ushua [...] In 1989, the federal government considered a tax on cruise ships for liquor, fuel, and other stores consumed in Canadian waters, but ultimately gave in to industry pressure and dropped the idea.19 The BC government has enacted changes to fuel taxes that benefit the cruise ship industry. [...] Taxation of the Industry An easy way for BC ports to maximize the value of cruise tourism is to recognize what they have to offer, and the value this has to cruise lines. [...] Ketchikan raised its head tax from $4 to $6 for passengers on cruise ships tied up at the downtown dock and from $2 to $4 for those tendered to town from ships anchored on the Tongass Narrows.27 Sitka is considering a $4 to $5 per passenger tax.28 In recent years a number of ports have been concerned about the cost of hosting cruise tourism and that cruise ships are not contributing a fair share t.
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