Cathy Adams
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271 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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You know, others will allow you to have dinner.
So you maybe dock really early and then you dock very late.
So you're kind of getting around that.
sort of six-hour really busy window.
Obviously, some destinations, Dubrovnik has capped the number of tourists.
Venice, when I was there a couple of weeks ago, there are QR codes now everywhere around the kind of old city.
And if you're there just for a day, you have to scan and then pay
I think it's 10 euro, you know, a kind of tourist tax, if you like.
So they are trying to get around it, but it's an age old problem.
And I think it feeds not so much just cruise tourism, but over tourism in general.
I mean, we had a conversation about this a month ago, maybe on this show.
And, you know, we're talking about destinations in Europe.
It's just a real delicate balance because lots of places in Europe really rely on big numbers of tourists.
And they can't send them away, but also they need to manage it really, really well.
But I do think cruises, because it is such a kind of scrutinized industry, they argue that it's a very kind of managed industry.
We know the number of people that are going to be
kind of two years in advance sometimes because they plan port visits, you know, many, many years in advance.
So we actually know how many people are going to be arriving and it can be managed a little bit more, you know, a little better say than maybe big numbers of coach tourists or, you know, people coming in from local, local resorts.
I'm not, I'm not defending it, you know, completely, but also I think that there is, there are ways to manage it.
And I think maybe it just needs to go a little bit further.
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