The Europa passenger liner’s docking on Tuesday in Cape Town was meant to be a ribbon-cutting event to mark the cruise ship season prelude in South Africa’s topmost tourist center, the first-ever since the ongoing pandemic hit. Stringent international travel curbs on southern Africa, where the Omicron variant had first been identified, have blown all hopes of an excellent tourist season.
The luxury liner is the first one to dock at Cape Town since the time South Africa had imposed a complete ban...