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British cruise market continues to grow
The number of British passengers who took a cruise rose marginally from 1.69 million in 2012 to 1.72 million last year.
According to a report out today by Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), UK passenger numbers increased by just 1.47%.
But the UK remains Europe’s biggest cruise market, with a 27.2% share of the total.
The UK’s direct spending on cruise, including items such as goods and services purchased by the cruise lines and the salaries of their employees, rose 6.5% to €3.12 billion pushing it from third to second in Europe replacing Germany.
The number of British and overseas passengers joining their cruise at a UK port passed the one million mark for the first time in 2013, jumping 8% to 1,062,000.
Meanwhile the number of passengers on day visits to one of the UK’s 51 cruise ports jumped by 20% to 866,000.
The total number of Europeans who took a cruise last year was 6.36 million, up 3.6% on 2012.
Although European passenger numbers continue to rise, they have slowed in the last few years since a peak of 12.6% growth between 2009 and 2010.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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