Labadee (also Labadie) is a port located on the northern coast of Haiti. It is a private resort leased to Royal Caribbean International. Royal Caribbean International has contributed the largest proportion of tourist revenue to Haiti since 1986, employing 300 locals, allowing another 200 to sell their wares on the premises, and paying the Haitian government US$6 per tourist.[1]...source
Cruise ships still continue to stop at Labadee even though 100 kms away in Port-au-Prince,as many as 200,000 people are believed dead. -
But the cruise line found itself on the defensive after criticism spread online. Melissa Bacchus, a Brooklyn, New York, teacher, was among several veteran cruisers to dominate message boards on sites like Cruisecritic.com with the debate.
'I do think morally it is wrong to go (to Labadee), where less than 60 miles away people are suffering,' Bacchus said in an interview. 'And because we have the resources, we have the wealth, we can frolic using the beauty of their island?' Haiti cruises cause controversy .
Could this paradise really be poor, desperate Haiti?
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