The 24 and 25 October to Naples will hold the fourth edition of Italian Cruise Day



This year the crocieristico traffic in the Italian ports will record a bending of the -9,0% on 2013 coming down to a total of 10,32 million passengers. Down also the ports of call of the cruise ships, that they will pile to 4.676 (- 9.4%). These forecasts are yield of the esteem supplied to Answers Tourism from 40 fleeting Italian crocieristici ports that represent 99.5% of touched the national traffic and 96% of the ship.

The previsional data are returned famous today by Answers Tourism in occasion of the presentation of the fourth edition of Italian Cruise Day, the event on the organized Italian crocieristica industry from the search society and advising in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Naples and with the support of next 25 the 24 Naples Terminal that will hold and October to Naples in Centro Congressi of the Marine Station.

As for the precedence three svoltesi editions to Venice (2011), Genoa (2012) and Livorno (2013), also this year Italian Cruise Day will be developed as a moment of I confront and debate on the last trends, dynamics, the production processes and the future perspectives of the field, with a rich program of argument moments. After the participation of opening of the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Naples, Maurizio Maddaloni, and of the salutes of the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Naples and the governmental director Affari of CLIA Europe, Italian Cruise Day will open this year with the delivery of the prize of bachelor Italian Cruise Day and of the prize of Assoporti bachelor. Besides the acknowledgment of the value of 1.000 euros assigned from Answers Tourism to the author of the best thesis dedicated to the crocieristici production and/or tourism, also Assoporti assigns from a 2014 its prize of bachelor of the value of 500 euros for the best thesis dedicated to the topics of the portualità in the crocieristico field. The event will enter therefore in alive with the presentation by Francesco di Cesar, president of Answers Turismo, of Italian Cruise Watch 2014, the relationship of reference search on the crocieristico field in Italy cured from the containing society and the data more updated and important and the forecasts for the future of the section.

In occasion of the today's presentation of the event Answers Tourism, beyond anticipating the national data on the crocieristico traffic, it has introduced also the projections to regional level elaborated by the society for 2014, that they show as the Liguria gets ready to become, for the first time, the region leader in Italy for number of passengers enlivened in own ports, leadership obtained by virtue of 2,34 million enlivened passengers (pairs to 22.7% of the crocieristico traffic waited for total), continuation from the Latium (2,2 million), Veneto (1,75 million), Campania (1,29 million) and Sicily (a million).

"The produced cruise - Francesco has commented di Cesar - has entered in its phase of maturity also in the Mediterranean area, as happened for a long time in the Caribbean. He is therefore normal to attend, also in Italy, of the courses and the oscillations of the traffic. After a long phase of uninterrupted increase, beginning from the bending of 2012 on the 2011 variations have been ollowed anniversaries of opposite sign, consequence of exogenous and endogenous factors to the section. An ulterior confirmation is given by the waited for resumption for 2015, whose details are contained in the edition 2014 of the Italian Cruise Watch that we will introduce to Naples next 24 October".

Analyzing in the detail the results achieved from the single crocieristici ports, second the esteem of Answers Tourism in 2014 Civitavecchia will confirm to the first place with 2,19 million enlivened passengers (- 13.8% on 2013) and 837 touched ship (- 12.7%), continuation from Venice with 1,74 million passengers (- 3.9%) and 489 touched ship (- 10.8%) and Naples, little beyond the million passengers (- 13.2%) and 425 touched ship (- 3.4%).

On 24 October, to the term of the presentation of Italian Cruise Watch and after two keynote speech of particular interest, the day will be developed as in the precedence editions through a rich of appointments and structured program in four sessions of argument, two in plenary one and two in parallel, on topics of the strong present time for national the crocieristico field faced from the main actors and opinion leader of the field. The plenary session of opening, entitled "the crocieristica in Italy: state of the art and future perspectives" will inside evidence the more important aspects of the current and perspective scene of the crocieristica in Italy facing topics that go from the investments in the field to the producing potentialities of, from the construction of the routes to the relations of the production row. To follow the two sessions will be carried out dedicated parallels this year, respective, to the sustainable future of the crocieristica production and to the demanded competences and professionalities in order to work inside of the crocieristico section. The day will be concluded with the plenary session of closing entitled "Towards South: the crocieristica in Southern Italy between opportunity and obstacles", during which the participants (administrators publics, manager of harbour companies and other truths of the tourist macroindustry) will be confronted on the opportunities of this area of the Country for the development of the crocieristici traffics in the entire basin of the Mediterranean.

Confirmed also this year the presence of the House of the Italian Ports Crocieristici, window and informative space on hand of the 14 crocieristici terminals that, today, have joined to the initiative, in order to illustrate the operators of the section, to the administrators publics and to it prints the obtained results, the projects in being and the initiatives in program.

Italian Cruise Day 2014 will accommodate also Space newly Young, with of initiatives and activity that Answers Tourism it has chosen to dedicate to the world of the young people and of the students between which Carriere@ICD, only career day the Italian one exclusively dedicated to the world of the crocieristica, launch in occasion of the first edition of Italian Cruise Day and in program this year in the morning of 25 saturdays October in the same premises of Centro Congressi of the Marine Station. The initiative will be developed as a series of encounters between the 100 young people the selected from the organizational secretariat and responsible human resources of some of the main companies of the field between which companies of cruise, harbour companies, marine agencies, tour operator and Network of travel agencies.