Building on the Solomon Islands potential as a new and exciting destination for the international cruise market, the destination will welcome eight separate cruise visits in 2016 – a 100 percent increase on its 2015 cruise schedule result.
Vessels visiting Honiara and cruising within the 992-island archipelago this year include Princess Cruises Lines’ Sea Princess and Dawn Princess, Noble Caledonia’s Caledonia Sky, Silverseas Cruises’ Silver Discoverer, P&O’s Pacific Eden and Seabourn Cruise Lines’ Seabourn Odyssey.
Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) CEO, Josefa ‘Jo’ Tuamoto attributed the increase to the efforts the national tourist office has to gone along with government and local private sector support to turn what he described as a “huge potential into an actual reality.”