How New Zealand changed course on cruising
No one can have missed the growing antipathy towards cruise ships around the world in recent years. Venice was one of the first to take a stand, banning all but the smallest vessels.
Now Amsterdam is in the throes of moving cruise ships big and small out of the city.
They are but the tip of the anti-cruise iceberg. In France, Alaska, Greece, Spain and Croatia, governments are trying to reduce or ban ships altogether in response to local protests.
So it was so refreshing to walk down the art-deco-adorned Emerson Street in Napier in New Zealand recently and see big signs outside so many shops and cafés welcoming us cruisers with all sorts of discounts.
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