The article “Exploring cruise ship passenger spending patterns in two Uruguayan ports of call” was accepted for publication in Current Issues in Tourism on November 28, 2013. It was authored by Dr. Juan Gabriel Brida, Professor of Quantitative Methods for Finance at the School of Management and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy), Daniel Bukstein, and Emiliano Tealde, graduates of the Master’s program in Economics.