Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuel Saragossa.

Coming up, they campaigned against cruise ship tourism.

But now in Venice, some wish it would come back.

Just to say that we need the cruise ships to get back to Venice,

because now we're not working for the coronavirus,

but when the coronavirus will be finished, we need to have the big ships get to Venice. So does the coronavirus pandemic spell the end of the line for the cruise ship industry?

It's certainly the end of the cruise ship industry.

As we knew it, the trouble is that cruising is more vulnerable than any other part of the travel industry.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

I'm in a water taxi and I'm just coming across the Venice Lagoon.

The sun is beating down and the water here is sparkling in the sunlight.

I'm entering one of the smaller canals now and on either side of me

there are beautiful buildings that Venice is famous for with their arched windows and geraniums

in the window boxes. On the water I can see one tourist boat where all the passengers are wearing

masks. But what's not here this year is the enormous cruise ships and that move has been welcomed

by some Venetians, but others are finding themselves

without any work and no income. When Business Daily's Vivian Nunes went to Venice recently,

she found a city transformed. Pre-COVID, Venice was the poster child for over tourism. Cruise ships navigated its narrow canals and waterways,

towering over the city's fragile historic buildings.

Many campaigners wished to see the back of them.

Well, the pandemic has granted those campaigners their wish.

But it's come at an economic price,

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