To Genoa the relationship of search "Italian Cruise Watch 2012" is introduced



Today to the Marine Station of Genoa the second edition of Italian Cruise Day, the forum has been opened on the Italian crocieristica industry devised from Answers organized Tourism and this year in collaboration with Marine Stations Spa.

In the course of the event "Italian Cruise Watch 2012" is introduced, the relationship of search on the field of the cruises in Italy that regarding the forecasts of closing of the year 2012 regarding the number of crocieristi enlivened in the Italian ports (embarks, disembarks and transits), confronted with the data to consuntivo of 2011, evidences a substantial one held of the crocieristico section with a contained reduction pairs to -4,2% for a total of 11.026.692 passengers, meaningful data - it is found - considering the economic crisis and the emotional effect "post Concord".

Regarding such value the study has analyzed in the detail the forecasts of closing 2012 regarding the data to consuntivo 2011 for the first 17 Italian crocieristici ports. In this Civitavecchia context confirmation to the first place with about 2,4 million enlivened passengers (- 6.6%) and 933 touched ships (- 6.9%). They follow Venice with 1,8 million passengers (+0.8%) and 663 touched ships (+1.4%) and Naples, with 1,3 million passengers (- 7.5%) and 520 touched ships (- 1.3%).

To the feet of the podium they place Livorno, with million passengers enlivened (+1.7%) and 469 touched ships (- 5.6%), Savona, with 900 thousand fleeting enlivened (- 5.1%) and 209 touched ships (- 9.9%) and Genoa, with about 803 thousand fleeting enlivened (+0.6%) and 201 touched ships (- 20.2%).

Passing instead to 2013, the data of the Italian Cruise Watch have been focused on seven Italian ports that by themselves, in 2011, have represented 70% of handling fleeting (Civitavecchia, Venice, Naples, Genoa, Livorno, Messina and Ravenna), evidencing an increase forecast are in the total of enlivened passengers (+4.5%), are in touched ships (+0.6%) regarding the esteem for 2012 on the same ports of call.

The study has moreover analyzed to others aspects legacies to the economy of the crocieristico section. For that it regards infrastructures, the Italian Cruise Wacth shows an increment of the crocieristici terminals in Italy, passed from 19 units of 2000 to 39 of 2012, with a forecast of ulterior increase for 2013 of four total units for 43 terminals.

In merit at last to the first indications emerged from the relationship of search of Answers Tourism on esteem (2012) and the forecasts (2013) relative to the course of the turnover of the travel agents on produced the cruises, the data show a positive course: in fact, 71% of the interviewed ones estimate a stability or increment of own turnover in 2012, percentage that salt in forecasts 2013 of ten points percentages, attesting itself to 81% of the panel.

The same relationship has moreover analyzed for 2012 - always second the interviewed travel agents - the main reported factors of chosen of the customers to "producing cruise". Regarding 2011 to the first place of it classifies in the past places the "satisfaction for cruises already carried out" with an increase of 10% (75%), to according to place the "reductions in price, promotions and cost cruise" with a +6.3% (61%), to the third party place "I confront it win respect to other types of vacation", with an increase of beyond 6 points percentages (42%) and, at last, the "notoriety of the brand" (campaigns of communication) with beyond a +8% (31%).

In the course of the Michael Thamm encounter, member of the executive committee of the European Cruise Council (ETC) and managing director of Costa Crociere, have evidenced some primates of Italy in crocieristico within in terms are economic that of market. "Italy - Thamm has said - is the centre of gravity of the European crocieristico system. For that the growth potential regards Europe is enormous, much from being able to reach the North American market in terms of generated passengers". "Returning to Italy - it has added - I consider that us they can be important increase margins from the moment that a passenger on three in Europe has travelled leaving from an Italian port and that between the ten he put up ports in Mediterranean five very they are Italian (for sum of he embarks, he disembarks and transits). We believe all over the world that such potentialities of increase must pass through a effort common of the crocieristica industry and the national and local institutions for the improvement of infrastructures so as to return the Italian ports an ulterior "door of income" to the patrimony of art and culture of the Country, so appreciated, that it is only and that must be more and more valued". Thamm has at last remembered that the field of the cruises today represents in Italy more than one hundred thousand places than job and has emphasized the engagement of the crocieristica industry in maintaining and to develop this important patrimony of resources.