Cruise Season Begins in Vallarta

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Passengers were greeted by mariachi music as they descended from the ship, which officially begins with the 2014-2015 cruise season in Puerto Vallarta.

The arrival of the ship represents the first of the 53 arrivals until December 31 , after three months without a cruise on the Port Administration (API) of Jalisco tourist destination.

"We will begin the cruise season with four cruises for September, and December will have 52 cruises in total, which added to the 64 already came reach a total of 116 cruises, this represents 43 percent of the 81 arrivals received during 2013, said Miguel Garcia, director of the API.

"Since this is the first time the Carnival Legend is coming to Puerto Vallarta, we perform the traditional exchange of plates with the ship's captain.

Carlos Gerard, Tourism director of Puerto Vallarta, said that the arrival of the cruise represents improvement of the industry in vallarta, since they will be arriving without interruption until the end of 2015.

"We are estimating that they will be arriving over 120 thousand cruise to this destination. welcome, it's something we're waiting, cruise ships and tourists, we are talking about $ 250,000 per cruise pours," the official said.

"The important thing is that these tourists will be using taxis to tour the tourist strip, going to some restaurant, the experience that they will live is important, so that tourists return later to expand the economic benefit."

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