Caribbean to see more cruise ships
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San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) - Believing that Americans want to stay closer to home after last month's terrorist attacks, some cruise lines have been moving itineraries to the neighbouring Caribbean. Some lines are planning to stay a bit farther away from the Middle East and South Asia as tensions build between the United States and Afghanistan.
Celebrity Cruises' Millennium was to sail for Spain and Turkey, but will stay in the Caribbean and Florida through at least next October. "Europe remains a viable vacation market," Celebrity Cruises president Rick Sasso said in a recent statement. "At the same time, we think it is wise to reposition
some ships."
The Constellation, which Celebrity was to launch in April in the Mediterranean, will stay closer to western Europe and then move to Caribbean in November 2002 as planned, the cruise line said.
The Holland America Rotterdam's cruises through the Panama Canal will not traverse waterway, but instead tour part of it and then make stops in the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curacao and the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay, said spokeswoman Rose Abello.
``People are going to look for vacations closer to home," Abello said. "Security is going to be at the top of their minds for a while."
