After a year without cruise tourists, some ports are questioning if they want them to ever return

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4. I do not get the appeal of most of these

if I was into staying at a crowded resort with other tourists why get on a boat? I prefer to go places on my own or with a few friends. don't like crowds, don't like regimented schedules. ugh

and can you imagine having to make a living at the shore stops from the masses of passengers who probably don't want to pay much for anything and have no room to store what they might buy?

tourism is a shitty unsustainable way to make a living. I hate when it gets promoted as THE solution to economic or ecological problems.