Topic: Taxi drivers to become tour guides for cruise visitors to Welsh city

Dozens of taxi drivers in Swansea are being trained to become tour guides as the city prepares itself for an anticipated surge in cruise ship arrivals.
According to the South Wales Evening Post, the Swansea docks are set to benefit from a marked increase in the number and frequency of cruise vessels stopping by, thanks in no small part to the money that has been spent rejuvenating a number of 'Celtic' ports over recent years.
And, with this in mind, Swansea's cabbies are reportedly being encouraged to join a new scheme geared towards making them 'Abertawe ambassadors', with all the local knowledge they need to keep tourists entertained and informed.
Speaking to the newspaper, one future cab-driving ambassador said: "There are so many things to see in the area - from Gower to Oystermouth Castle, to the Dylan Thomas links - and knowing a bit about them will help visitors."
Just last month, Dublin City Council outlined its plans to boost the Irish capital's attractiveness to the world's biggest cruise operators.

Yes can confirm have just read the story.The plan is to cash in on the expanding market as it seems cruises will double over the next 10 years and round Briton and domestic cruises are becoming more popular.The Celtic wave partnership are promoting the towns and city's along the Welsh and Irish coast as a low cost green destination for cruise operators.We had a cruise ship sailing out of Swansea a couple of years ago to Europe somewhere seems it was a 1 off as there hasn't been any more since.We do have a ferry to Ireland.A lot of work has been done to the docks so you never know.

Excellent idea!

I'm hoping we might do the same thing here in Barbados,
where so many of our taxi drivers already give their own version of The Island Tour
straight out of their heads --but it wouldn't hurt to polish them up a bit...

It's a great idea. We have used Taxi drivers in many a port to give us a tour of the area. We've not been disappointed yet.

The City of London has a similar course for taxi drivers.

Belfast Cabbie's are geared up for tours, we hired a black cab for a political tour we saw places that I had only ever dreamed of seeing walking backwards.

It is a great investment for the tourist industry lets hope the ships come in

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Belfast Cabbie's are geared up for tours, we hired a black cab for a political tour we saw places that I had only ever dreamed of seeing walking backwards.

It is a great investment for the tourist industry lets hope the ships come in

Hm, wish we had known that as we will be in Belfast next week on the Adonia. OH has booked a HOHO bus tour but I guess a tourist taxi would be better.

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Hm, wish we had known that as we will be in Belfast next week on the Adonia. OH has booked a HOHO bus tour but I guess a tourist taxi would be better.

I did write about it in one of my posts you must have missed it