At the end of last week, Nice, FranceIt became the last cruise destination to impose restrictions on ships, with the aim of limiting the size of ships visiting the picturesque tourist city along the coast of Azur.
As of July 1, the ships that transport more than 900 people will not be able to disembark the passengers in Nice or in the neighboring port of Villefranche-Sur-Mer.
This and similar measures are part of a trend that, in recent years, has aimed to help popular tourist destinations reduce the number of cruise passengers.
“I don’t want floating hotels to be presented in front of Nice,” said Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice, during an advertisement on restrictions, translated from an article that appeared in the local newspaper Nice Matina January 24. “As for the cruises that pollute, that throw their low -cost clientele that they consume anything, but leave their waste behind, well, I say it: these cruises do not take place here.”
The International Association of Lines Cruise, an organization that represents the collective interests of the cruis small are small. able to enter the port in Nice; The largest should go to Villefranche-Sur-Mer, the port for Nice, about 4 miles away. Only three large ships and 34 medium ships should be called Villefranche-Sur -mer in 2025.
The CLIA also said that the prohibition and other similar “only serve to stigmatize the cruise industry.”
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However, on average, each cruise passenger spends much less, only around $ 40 per day, than other Nice visitors, according to the statistics of the local chamber of commerce informed by The telegraphmaking them less desirable visitors in terms of income.
NICE joins a laundry from other popular cruises destinations that have promulgated regulations To climb the number of cruises they visit. They include Amsterdam; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Mykonos and Santorini in Greece; Key West, Florida; and Venice, which largely led the burden of prohibiting megips in the locations of the city center.
In other regions where cruises are popular, some destinations have decided to implement passenger taxes instead of or in addition to imposing limits on the number or size of the ships they visit.
Although the capital of Juneau recently promulgated restrictions on the size of the ship, Alaska ports have, for years, imposed per head per passenger on the cruises.
Two countries, Iceland and Mexico, also recently increased existing tourist taxes and expanded them to include cruise passengers, even those who do not go to land in the port. At the beginning of 2025, Iceland changed what was previously a $ 7 rate per person for night guests in the country at a rate of $ 18 per visit (or, for cruise passengers, for port), despite the fact that the Cruises remain in their ships at the night of en land.
At the end of 2024, Mexico voted to raise an existing tourist tax from $ 35 to $ 42 and Start loading cruise passengersThey were previously exempt. After the pressure of the cruise lines, the collection of the new rates, which were supposed to enter into force in early 2025, will be delayed until half a year.
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