| | |  Travel & Outdoors | May 2009 
Carnival to Resume Mexico Cruises
 Hugo Martin - Los Angeles Times
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Carnival Cruise Lines, the world's largest cruise line operator, said it will resume visits to Mexican ports.
Following word that the Centers for Disease Control is no longer recommending that Americans avoid nonessential travel to the country due to the H1N1 flu outbreak, the company said its first cruise ship to return to Mexico will be the Carnival Holiday.
The four-day cruise departing May 28 from Mobile, Ala., will stop in Cozumel, Mexico.
No other major cruise line has announced plans to return to Mexico this summer.
Norwegian Cruise Line officials said they won't return to Mexico until at least September, having already repositioned its summer tours for Alaska, Europe, and the East Coast of the United States. Holland America is not scheduled to return to Mexico until October.
Late in April, five of the world's largest cruise lines suspended all stops in Mexico, substituting stops in California for layovers in Mexico.
The shift in itineraries brought business to recession-stung merchants along California's coast. But it irritated many passengers and dealt a severe blow to Mexico's tourism industry, already reeling from the impacts of the economic meltdown and a violent drug war. |
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