I myself have been to Cap Haitian on a Royal Carribean cruise, the Dominican Republic too...
Yes...
Cap Haitian IS Labadee ...the private beach where Royal Carribean visits a few times per week during winter season (when their ships are not in Europe or Alaska...then it is less)....I have also visited there
However...
they employ about 200 Haitians...NO one else can enter, the beach is ONLY open for RCI cruisers when they are in port ..other than that it is empty
I have posted a about that private beach...that is the ONLY place cruisers come in...and they do not venture out of the area....there was NO tourism in Haiti and that is my point
I have more than "proved" that by links, facts and statistics
There are only 5 restaurants in the whole country listed on Trip advisor for instance...their forum is "void" of posts except for people on RCI cruises and some missionary/aid workers (who hire "guides" to translate and protect them)
Visiting Dom Republic is not Haiti...same island, different country.
are you aware that for some years RCI didn't even call Labadee "Haiti"?? Some cruisers have visited there and didn't even know they were in Haiti LOL
the past few years they list it is as Labadee Haiti...or Labadee Cap Haitian Haiti
however..it is a sanitized version of Haiti I do think...and 200 workers does NOT make a "tourism" industry
Haiti had virtually NO tourist industry...you can google it. Even Lonely Planet doesn't seem to be able to advise going there as a tourist. It was very dangerous....the water/electricity was bad / diseases rampant...people need shots and stuff to go there on a "mission". airport a mess, no regular buses,
Lina earlier you said and I quote :
"Ummm, they Did have a wonderful Tourist Trade from Cruise ships alone, let alone the people that fly to Haiti as a vacation destination. Cap Haitian and Port- Au-Prince are frequent ports of call for many cruise ships...
Sorry but I don't think you can back that up....200 people on one small beach is NOT a "wonderful Tourist trade"....NO cruise ships ever called at Port au Prince....and to say "all the people that fly to Haiti as a vacation destination".. I am sorry...but hardly anyone went there as a "vacation destination"....our govt had travel warnings...people had to hire guard/guides....there were only a few hotels...the "best"...Hotel Montana...had 143 rooms
that is NOT a tourist industry and it was not "wonderful"..it was sad and it is sadder now
again...Cap Haitian is "Labadee".....it gets a few RCI cruise ships per week in winter, less in summer
Port au Prince never had cruise ships
I am willing to look at any link or proof that anyone can post to show me that Haiti had a "tourist" industry beyond the lucky few who work at Labadee...and most of them probably support a ton of relatives JMO