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COVER STORY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47 been a long time coming. Now, I’m ready to do what needs to be done. It’s a challenging time, but I’m ready for it.” De Marchena Kaluche will serve from now through 2010, which is anticipated to be a crucial time for fixing some of the region’s ongoing flight problems, as well as its lack of regional marketing. He told me that the CTDC was slated to discuss the possibility of forming portance of lowering flight costs to attract more airlift to the region. Puerto Rico Extends Cruise Incentive Program, Adds Flights Gov. Vila talked about the passing of a law to expand his administration’s Cruise Incentive Program, which allocates a yearly $10 million fund for the development of Puerto Rico’s maritime industry. If the expansion results worst is over, they said the first-time requirements that all U.S. travelers have a passport when traveling to the Caribbean will continue to have an impact on the region for years to come. Others, including the CTO’s secretary general/CEO at the time of the conference and recently named minister of tourism for the Bahamas, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, say the restrictions may actually cause an influx of travel to the Caribbean in the long run. The opening ceremony at the Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit the first-ever regional marketing fund. The fund would involve the pooling of money from the individual members of the CTO and CHA to promote the region as a whole. No further details have been announced as of press time. Although De Marchena Kaluche expects members to be receptive to the idea, he is aware that the actual planning of such a historic fund could be a challenge. “It’s easy for everyone to say ‘yes’ to the idea, but not as easy when we are establishing a mechanism and funding strategy,” he said. De Marchena Kaluche also stressed the im48 | TravelAgent July 21, 2008 in a 20 percent increase in cruise arrivals by June 30, 2011, Vila told the media, these incentives will automatically be extended to June 30, 2014. Passport Issue Revisited About a year and a half after the implementation of U.S. passport requirements to the Caribbean, officially labeled the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Travel Agent revisited the issue to see if it was still a threat to Caribbean travel and found a pretty mixed reaction. Although some tourism officials feel the According to Vanderpool-Wallace, there were an unexpected number of U.S. citizens who went and got a passport when the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) first passed the law for air travelers in January 2007. The DOT’s predicted number of people who would get a passport was based on statistics on how many people traveled to the Caribbean annually. The DOT, however, didn’t expect to also see a large number of people apply who have never traveled a day in their lives before. Therefore, there was a logjam and major delays CONTINUED ON PAGE 50

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