re: Key West to ban most cruise ships

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This will have an economic impact, though, to their own citizens.

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Probably not as great as you’d think. Cruise tourists spend just a few hours in port, and most are value conscious, limited spenders (based on the customers of the cruise lines making port stops in KW). The cheap drinks, shave ice and frozen lemonade kiosks, and schlocky souvenir stands and key lime pie on a stick vendors will move into some other niche, KW has a nice literary festival, a real small town life and feel, and enough charms
and attractions to develop other, less cattle-call-crowded economic ventures.