Tourist suggests Craft Alive be advertised on cruise ships
This information was shared with this news site at the request of a German tourist who gave his name as Michael. “My name is Michael and I love this Island.
“I am a German Tourist, I am on the boat with three thousand people today, (Sunday December 28, 2014) and women have no shops to go and buy, they like the islands where they only come to buy,” he said.
Speaking for him and other men he said, “You know it, you know your wife, and today nobody knows that here is a market (Craft Alive).”
He said that he made it a special interest of his to search for the location he visited four years ago on a previous cruise, at the time he learnt the name as ‘Tent City’. “I was here four years ago and I know this market at the bus stop and you should say to the drivers of taxis… you have thirty/forty persons on board they should say in the morning, noon or when they come for the tours that there is a little market because nobody has a chance to see this market.”
The German who insisted that his taxi driver escort him to the Craft Alive village said that many persons choose not to leave the ship as it was their understanding that there are very few places to shop since just about four private shops are being advertised at length on the cruise ships.
Several vendors of Craft Alive, when contacted, said it is not the first time such a concern was raised with them by tourists themselves and think it’s something the relevant authorities should take heed to especially as the vendors are dependent on the tourists for their business and because of the heavy fee they pay to government as stall holders.
22 Responses to “Tourist suggests Craft Alive be advertised on cruise ships”
Most visitors come off ship onto a bus take a tour by land down to Pussers Sopher's Hole Frenchman's Cay and return by ferry. Others take that ferry and return by tour bus. This service is provided by an operator I will not mention.
Can Craft Alive survive with ? probably someone help.