Topic: stayover

2025 tourism year in review: while cruise numbers faltered, airlift, hotel development and marketing all pointed to a long-term bet on stayover tourism as an engine of sustainable growth.

Cruise arrivals to the Cayman Islands plunged to their lowest October level on record this year, underscoring a deepening downturn in the cruise sector even as stayover tourism continues to show resilience.

Cruise tourism arrivals in Cayman have surpassed 1 million passengers this year, for the first time since the pandemic, tourism officials have announced.

The Cayman Islands are shining like a newly polished ornament. Holiday lights are shimmering, our white beach sand glitters in the sunshine like freshly fallen snow (almost), and everywhere, it seems, is decked out in the trappings of the season.

Growing tourist numbers added almost US$90 million in direct spending to the economy between 2013 and 2015, with the contribution split almost evenly between cruise and stay-over visitors.