Cruises and port cities, ready to return?

AIVP is organising a series of webinars entitled "Port City Talks" to continue to debate, to build the port city of tomorrow and to keep in touch with our members. The 2nd webinar of the series bears on the return of cruise activity after the health crisis that we have experienced. It will be held on Thursday 18 June 2020 at 16h00 (CEST / GMT +2). Here is an introductory text on the challenges the cruise industry is facing after the coronavirus crisis. The 2nd AIVP Webinar will take place in French and be moderated by Mr. Carlos Mondaca (Vice-President of AIVP, responsible for Public Affairs of the Port of San Antonio in Chile and Chairman of the Corporación de Puertos del Cono Sur), and will count with the contributions of Ms Laurence Bouchardie, (Head of the Marketing Department - Head of Cruise Bordeaux - Port of Bordeaux Atlantic), Ms Francesca Morucci, (Promotion and Public Relations Office of the North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Network Authority) and Mr Jamil Ouazzani, (Director of Marketing and Strategic Intelligence of the Port Management Company of the City of Tangier). These webinars are exclusively for our members, but if you wish to attend, you can ask us for access. Some figures about tourism in 2020 The UN World Tourism Organization forecasted in the World Tourism Barometer of January 2020 a growth 3% to 4% of international tourism for the current year. In its confidence index in the same month, it registered a “cautious optimism” for this year, since 47% of participants believed that in 2020 tourism would perform better than 2019. Fast forward 5 months and the same organization in edition of May of the Barometer predicted that international tourist numbers could fall between 60% and 80% in 2020. These hard figures reveal the economic disaster the tourism sector is heading to. Of course, the cold numbers do not show the social drama that is affecting millions of families depending from these activities. For that reason, in some countries, we are…