The nordeuropeo crocieristico tourism is in strong increase


The cruises in the Arctic regions, the Norwegian fjords and the islands of the British archipelago are recording an emphasized increment so like the cruises of the entire nordeuropea region. It reveals a relationship of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and of the European Cruise Council (ETC) that for this year it on board previews an increase of 36.5% of the number of passengers of the ships that carried out routes in the Arctic region (included Iceland) regarding 2011, an increment of 29.4% of the boarded passengers on the ships that visit the Norwegian fjords and an increase of 17.0% of the number of the passengers on board of the ships that call in the islands of the British archipelago. For the Baltic Sea, the area in which is carried out the greater number of cruises of the Nordic region, increase of 6.4% is attended.

Altogether the study, elaborated from G.P. Wild (International) on behalf of CLIA and ETC, previews that in the 2012 number of crocieristi in the nordeuropea region it will be of 1.486.773 units, with an increase of 16.0% regarding 1.281.515 in 2011. In particular, in the Baltic Sea this year is previewed the presence of 523.392 crocieristi (+6.4%), in the Norwegian fjords of 325.407 crocieristi (+29.4%), in the Arctic region of 204.935 crocieristi (+36.5%), in the islands of the British archipelago 105,929 crocieristi (+17.0%) and in north-western Europe of 327.110 crocieristi (+10.0%).

In this region 44 crocieristiche companies operate altogether whose ships scale 253 ports, of which 52 in the Baltic Sea, 78 in Norway and the Arctic region and 123 in north-western Europe (included the islands of the British archipelago, the Atlantic Sea of the North and ports).

“The north-European crocieristico market is growing quickly, graces is to the widened new range of destinations in the region is also to the choice of the crocieristiche companies to extend their season in this area in the months more colds of the year”, it has commented Bo Larsen, director of the Cruise Baltic, an association constituted from 25 crocieristiche destinations of the Baltic Sea that is associated to the European Cruise Council. “The Europe North - it has added Larsen - has become a region absolutely to visit for the international crocieristi, that different and exceptional attractions are enticed by its, between which city of world-wide relief, little ones inhabited centers and hidden gems and, naturally, from a nature of a breathtaking beauty”.