Boom times for Blue Lagoon Cruises
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FIJI’S Blue Lagoon Cruises carried more passengers in October than in any other single month in the history of the company.
The company operates a fleet of six vessels from Lautoka on four-day/three night Popular Cruises as well as four
day/three-night and seven-day/six-night
Club Cruises through the Yasawa islands
group in Fiji’s north-north-west.
More than 2000 passengers were carried in October with high occupancies in all three cruise categories. More than 1300 of these were Popular Cruise passengers, the highest number for those schedules since April 1987, and the October occupancy rate for four-day/ three-night Club Cruises was 96 per cent,
20 passengers less than full capacity.
Seven-day/six-night Club Cruises oper ated at 93 per cent occupancy, According to Blue Lagoon s chairman, David Wilson, this was attributable to an increase in p assen ger traffic from Conti nental Europe) as well as North America and New Zealand, and despite the possible decline in the Australian market, gj ue Lagoon Cruises has started a FS 16-million five-year development plan, which includes the building of three new vessels. D