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Tourism Village Up For Sale?
posted (July 22, 2010)
Is the Fort Street Tourism Village up for sale? From the international news reports, it looks so! According to newspaper reports out of Turkey a company called Global Liman ??letmeleri, is considering the acquisition of the Belize and Roatan ports, according to a statement from Global Yat?r?m Holdings.

According to the article, The Belize port is managed jointly by Fort Street Tourism Village and Diamonds International of Florida, and serves up to to 850,000 cruiser passengers annually.

The article notes that when the Belize and Roatan ports are added to Global Liman's current portfolio, the port network of the company will be among the most prominent in the world with a passenger capacity of 4.5 million.

The implications are huge for Belize as Fort street is the single hub for cruise ship arrivals to Belize and it generates direct and indirect employment for hundreds....

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