Like any great business, cruise industry, is a strong lobbying group of lawmakers in port destination.
From 1997 to 2007 Cruise Line International Asociation spent the amount of US$10.017.807 on
lobbying the U.S Congress (Cruise Junkie). It was also noted that power with the participation of the
Carnival Corporation as a partner of the firm Puerta Cancun-Xcaret, SA de CV, whom the Mexican
government gave the construction and operation of a terminal for big ships, the fact generated a
heated debate. Others significant lobbing groups are the wholesaler receptive tourism operators.
These companies are able to underbid, then so, they dominate the operation of tours and shore
excursions in the port destination. Small local tourism operators and providers not only resign
themselves to profit what the cruise line deems fit, but they would have to deal with displeased
passengers. These operators prefer not to vie with cruise lines for fear of losing the small part of the
business that they share. On the other hand, there is a group is composed by hotel sector. Cruise sector
causes apprehension to hotel managers for reasons as the nonpayment of taxes compared with those
who pay these entrepreneurs. In Aruba, hotels and operators feel that their traditional packages lose
ground to ships scheduled. With regard to these disagreements, Manuel Butler Halter (expert from the
WTO) states that cruise sector growth and traditional tourism sector are not irreconcilable if they
develop diversification and motivation policies in destinations (SECTUR, 2003).