Lisandro Macarrulla, president of Inversiones Turisticas Sans Souci, the project that includes a marina, shopping area and real estate development along the east and west banks of the Ozama River, announced that the San Diego Cruise Ship Terminal will be in operation by October 2006, and that they will inaugurate a new terminal on the Sans Souci side by September 2007. He said that these improvements will make Santo Domingo an attractive mother port for cruise ships, meaning that tourists will arrive by air to board the ship, staying in Santo Domingo two or three days prior to departure. Royal Caribbean Cruises has already announced that it would be using the port as a homeport for their Legend of the Seas liner.