The Pride of Aloha will conclude its Hawai'i service Sunday then sail for its new home port in Miami, leaving only one Norwegian Cruise Lines ship in the interisland cruise market at a time when the local visitor industry is struggling with declining arrivals and rising airfares.

NCL Corp. originally had planned to move the ship to Asia, but announced today that it would be based in Miami.

This move will leave only the Pride of America from what had once been a fleet of three U.S.-flagged NCL cruise ships in Hawaiian waters. The departure of the Pride of Hawaii in February, and now the Pride of Aloha are major blows to the local cruise market, once considered a bright spot for the local tourism industry.

And the industry is looking anxiously at the fallout from the closing of two airlines with significant Hawai'i routes – Aloha and ATA airlines. Tourism, the state's No. 1 private industry, brings in more than $12 billion a year.

The reflagged Pride of Aloha will become the Norwegian Sky — again — and offer three- and four-day Bahamas cruises from Miami starting this summer. The 2,002-passenger ship, built in 1999, will return to the NCL international fleet and will be outfitted with a casino when it heads for a wet dock refurbishing in Miami.