Cruise liner traffic boosted by US, UK and Spanish passengers

Cruise passenger traffic last month totalled 44,441, a drop of 12,925 passengers over the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said. Cruise passenger traffic in the first 11 months of the year amounted to 540,724, an increase of 11.9...

Cruise passenger traffic last month totalled 44,441, a drop of 12,925 passengers over the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said. Cruise passenger traffic in the first 11 months of the year amounted to 540,724, an increase of 11.9 per cent over the same period last year.

Of these, 77 per cent came from European Union countries, mostly from Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany.

The American market represented 57.6 per cent of non-EU passengers.

Then again, the increase in passengers was mainly due to a rise in American, British and Spanish tourists.

At the same time, the German and Italian markets fell by 27,743 and 13,437 passengers respectively.

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