It seems sometimes that no one talking about where to build a cruise terminal knows how to look west instead of east along our shores.
Let's try it. What about a site near the proposed Disney Park on Lantau Island? Several advantages immediately stand out. First of all it would be near our airport, which would make it very convenient for the sort of fly and cruise tours which are increasingly in vogue and would help the under-used airport pay for itself with more passenger arrivals.
Then, of course, there is the Disney Park itself.
Both it and the cruise tours would have all the greater draw if it were possible for tourists to step straight off their ships and say hello to Mickey Mouse, assuming that is, that this is truly what makes life so fulfilling as Disney boosters think.
We would also have a great deal more space than in our already heavily constricted harbour at a time when public concern is building up over the danger that the harbour will be turned into a narrow sewage channel by all the development being proposed along its shoreline.
And then there is the consideration that the mega-ships, which are what the cruise industry wants and is now building, would not fit that easily into the harbour anyway.