The port of Palamós opened the cruise season yesterday with the arrival, early within the morning, of the Marella Discovery 2.
The port of Palamós opened the cruise season yesterday with the arrival, early within the morning, of the Marella Discovery 2. There have been 1,900 passengers on board, largely British. Most took benefit of the stopover to go to Friends and Peratallada; others most popular to hike alongside the Ronda path, and there have been nonetheless some who went so far as Tossa de Mar. In the center of the afternoon, the ship set sail for Palma. That is the primary of the 50 cruise ships which are scheduled to dock at this port this season. The port of Tarragona expects 55 in a season already similar to that of 2019, during which data had been damaged.
A far cry from the figures of Barcelona, which closed final 12 months with 1.6 million cruise passengers (68.5% of what it had in 2019, earlier than the pandemic), Palamós expects 50,000 passengers all through the season ( till mid-December), and Tarragona, 98,000. These two ports have established themselves as options for cruise passengers who journey the Mediterranean however have already visited Barcelona. To this circuit, and with smaller ships, the port of Roses can also be added, which is able to begin its season on April 27 and expects a couple of thousand cruise passengers unfold over six stops.
The estimated financial impression of the exercise of those cruises on the Costa Brava is 5 million, as reported yesterday by the Division of Territory based mostly on a examine by the Worldwide Affiliation of Cruise Traces (CLIA). This report calculates that every passenger disembarking at a port of name spends a median of 90 euros. The ports of Palamós and Roses obtain cruises from the North American and European markets in equal elements and this 12 months 9 of the scheduled cruises will name on the Costa Brava for the primary time. The figures anticipated on the port of Palamós imply 13% extra passengers and 11% fewer calls in comparison with final 12 months. 62% of the cruises will arrive through the off-season, and 38% through the summer time.
In Tarragona, the season began on Thursday with the Silver Moon luxurious cruise, from the Miami Royal Caribbean group, which till now had by no means referred to as within the metropolis. Coming from Palma, this ship, 213 meters lengthy and in-built 2020, has capability for 596 passengers and a program of actions that revolves across the culinary tradition of every vacation spot the place it stops.
Till mid-December, the port of Tarragona anticipates the arrival of 55 cruise ships and, with them, 98,000 guests, a determine similar to that earlier than the pandemic, when 100,000 cruise passengers had been reached. The explosion of this exercise in an eminently industrial and oil port like that of Tarragona befell in 2017, when the arrival of one of these ship doubled: it went from 20 cruises in 2016 to 40 that 12 months 12 months. After the impression of the pandemic, exercise started to recuperate in 2021 with simply 5 stops. This port is now constructing a brand new cruise terminal that's anticipated to be operational from subsequent season, throughout 2024.
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