In the 2012 crocieristico traffic in the ports of the Adriatic it is increased of 0.9%



Last year the number of crocieristi which reached in the ports of the Adriatic has recorded an light increment, while that of the passengers of the ferries quickly has an important contraction regarding 2011. The main data on tourism by sea in the Adriatic, contained in the "Adriatic Sea Tourism Report", Forums - cruise, ferry, sail & yachts", itinerant international event are introduced today to the Palace of the Conferences of the Marine Station of Trieste in the course of the first day of the first edition of the "Adriatic Sea that has as main objective to discuss and to be confronted on the current situation and the possible strategies of development of the Adriatic intended as an only tourist destination of excellence. The encounter is devised by Answers Tourism that has it organized this year in partnership with TurismoFVG, the regional agency premail to the tourist development of the Friuli Venice Julia, and with the collaboration of Promotrieste and Trieste Passenger terminal.

In 2012 - the report of search specifies realized from Answers Tourism - they have been the almost five million passengers enlivened in the crocieristici ports Adriatic (+0.9% on 2011) and are carried out 3,550 touched ships (- 1.3%). At the level of single ports, the first place is occupied by Venice that has closed 2012 with beyond the 1,7 million one passengers (pairs to 35.6% of the total of the area), followed from Dubrovnik with 975 thousand and Corfù, with about 655 thousand. The first forecasts on the 2013 elaborated by Answers Tourism on 12 ports (Venice, Dubrovnik, Corfu, Bari, Split, Ancona, Ravenna, Trieste, Sibenik, Brindisi, Igoumenitsa and Rijeka) representative for 80.1% of the traffic fleeting enlivened in 2012 and for about 79% of the touched ships recorded in last year, show a decided increase estimated in the order of +9.3% regarding the enlivened crocieristi and of +1.9% for the touched ships.

Passing to the field of the ferries, inside of the report fleeting and touched handlings are brought back the ship of beyond 30 between the main ports of the Adriatic. In the 2012 passengers enlivened from such infrastructures they have been 16 million and 325 thousand, with a decided contraction regarding the year precedence (- 9.3%). Touched the ship that has interested such ports of call has been instead about 80 thousand, with a reduction of the -1,9% regarding 2011. Considering ten of the more important you carry for the traghettistica in the Adriatic (Split, Zadar, Igoumenitsa, Corfu, Ancona, Bari, Durres, Brindisi, Dubrovnik and Venice), the analysis of the historical series of relative data to decade 2003-2012 has evidenced as, in terms of enlivened passengers, has been returned to the starting point, with total 2012 (about 14,2 million) only little advanced to the book value in 2003 (about 13,2 million).

Regarding at last the nautical one, the edition 2013 of Adriatic Sea Tourism Report, in absence of regarding punctual data all the Countries that appear on the Adriatic, has started an investigation job on the operators and of recognition of harbour infrastructures and, more in general terms, of the existing landings place in such area, arriving to mappare in this first edition of the Report 243 navy and beyond 82 thousand you mail boat.

The Forum will tomorrow conclude with others three sessions of argument and debate.