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Mayor Lisa Helps says that could bring along with it spending from passengers on hotels, restaurants and more, and bring the local economic benefit of cruises from $40,000 per ship to up to $2 million per ship
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The 40k economic benefit per ship figure is completely wrong! Hopefully that was just an error by the CBC, not a direct quote by Helps...
According to this 'Cruise Impact Study' - from March 2014 - the direct expenditures by passengers, crew and cruise lines visiting Victoria during the
2012 cruise season was $49 million. There were 229 ship visits scheduled for 2012.
So, the direct spending (impact)
was $214,000 per ship.
http://www.gvha.ca/sites/default/fil...acts_final.pdf