In the 2015 German crocieristi they have reached a total record of 18,1 million passengers (+2.3%)



Last year the German crocieristi are gone up to the quota record of 18,1 million unit, with an increase of +2.3% regarding 2014. It emphasizes a study on the crocieristico market of Germany that is commissioned by CLIA Deutschland, German section of international the crocieristica association Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and from the association of the German travel agencies Deutscher ReiseVerban (DRV) to the Business Research and Economic Advisors (BREA). The document is introduced today to Berlin to the international fair on tourism ITB.

Illustrating the study, the president of CLIA Deutschland, Michael Ungerer, it has specified that in spite of such increase "the question has been still greater regarding that which the navigation companies have been able to satisfy with the existing ability. Therefore - it has added - we are trusting that the ulterior ability that will be introduced in 2016 will supply an immense new range of innovative services for a meaningful peak of increase of the number of passengers".

"In the course of last the 20 years - it has found the president of DRV, Norbert Fiebig - the cruises have become a fundamental part of tourism and not only in Germany. In many nations of all the world the field contributes to the economic increase and moreover it creates and it supports wherever places of work. In Germany - it has specified Fiebig - they constitute a pillar of the field of the travel agencies: still about 80% of the cruises they are sold in the travel agencies".

The director of CLIA Deutschland, Helge Grammerstorf, has remembered that in Germany "in the past decade the number of croceristi almost is tripled. As a result of the increase of the previewed fleet - it has emphasized - this year can be exceeded the million quota two passengers. A key factor in this success - Grammerstorf has explained - is the interesting relationship mark-quality of the cruises. Other type of vacation does not exist almost some that, to price parity, offers so an immense range of routes, destinations and services on board".

According to Felix Eichhorn, the president of AIDA Cruises, the company of the crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation dedicated specifically at the market German, already in the 2020 crocieristico market of Germany will be able to reach the threshold of three the million passengers. Eichhorn has remembered that in the next few years in the fleet of the single AIDA Cruises other four new ships will enter that will allow to double the ability offered from the company.

The study commissioned from CLIA Deutschland explains that three Germans on four (76.2%) prefers to carry out cruises on European routes. Last year, in particular, a third party of German passengers (33.6%) has carried out a cruise in Europe North, in the British islands and in the Baltic Sea, while the Mediterranean region, that it is one of the more popular tourist destinations of the German crocieristi, is chosen by 31.2% of the coming passengers from Germany. But an always increasing number of German passengers, graces also to the tendency to a greater diversification of the routes and crocieristici, chooses to visit also destinations which, for example, those on the European Atlantic coast or of Canarian islands (11.4%) or of the America North and Caribbean (11.3%).

In the 2015 German market of the cruises, with exclusion of those fluvial ones, it has generated a turnover, included the sales on board of the ships, pairs to 2,87 billion euros, with an increase of +5.7% regarding 2,71 billion euros in the year precedence. The average price of the cruises has grown of +3.3% to 1.580 euros regarding 1.530 euros in 2014. The precise study that in the 2015 every day average cost of an oceanic cruise is increased of +4.9% to 181.86 euros regarding 173 euros in the 2014 (171 euro in 2013). The average life of the cruises instead is slightly diminished by 8,83 nights in 2014 to 8,69 nights in 2015.

Last year for the German crocieristico market 296 ships for an ability were available total of 456.185 places read (448,729 in 2014 and 434,650 in 2013). The increment of 7.456 places read has been inferior regarding the years precedence. In 2016 all over the world ten new ulterior ships for 27.600 places will be put in service read and two of these, for a total of 5.750 places read, will be destined at the market German.