the direct contribution of the cruises for the territory of is estimated in 30,9 million euros



The Harbour Authority of has made to analyze the importance and the economic impact of the crocieristica activity for the territory breaks, study that is commissioned to Answers Tourism and that it evidences as from Liguria port receives cruise ships gives beyond ten years, but is from the 2013, with the adhesion of ulterior associates to the Consortium Discover La Spezia as a result of income of the Harbour Authority happened the year precedence, than a real boom has been recorded, with an increase of +1500% in four-year term 2012-2015. Right to remember that at the beginning of the 2013 new structures of the port of call are inaugurated also dedicated to the cruises. The study evidences moreover that the port breaks is time stablily hard anticipates in geography of the main Italian crocieristici ports of localization in the part northwest atlantic of the Mediterranean, so as of the numerous resorts that can be reached using La Spezia as access door.

If in the period the 2006-2012 crocieristico traffic in the port of is oscillated between 31 thousand fleeting (2009) and beyond 90 thousand fleeting (2011), in 2013 the traffic is gone up almost 206 thousand crocieristi, the next year to 484 thousand and in 2015 has recorded a fleeting increase of +38% having gone up to 667 thousand against a almost unchanged number of ports of call of cruise ships in last biennium (176 in 2014 and 175 in the next year).

The increase of the traffic crocieristo in the port breaks in last the three years, with a number of passengers more than tripled, is meaningful even if confronted with that of the tourist arrivals in the territory broadly speaking, recorded near the receptive structures, a lot in the municipality and the province of that in the regional total and all Italy: regarding the tourist arrivals of the three years, the city of more anticipates the consisting increase, pairs to +48%, continuation from the province with +29% and the E region entire Italy with more contained increases.

With respect to the contribution of the crocieristica activity to the local economy, the study explains that in the 2015 total expense of 667 thousand crocieristi carried out to earth once disembarked from the ships it would pile to beyond 41 million euros, implying a medium value of 62 euros I yield - specifies the document - of the high resource to organized excursions that have a advanced average cost to the 80 euros. Considering the sun expenses in the area spezzina, the esteem carries to indicate in 22,7 million euros the contribution that arrives to from the direct expenses of the crocieristi to earth (55% on the total, for a value of medium expense captured from the provincial territory pairs to 34,1 euros per capita, 37,9 euros if the come down passengers consider themselves only, since he has been estimated in a 10% who has favorite to remain on board during the pause of the ship in port).

Moreover the search of Answers Tourism, on the base of considerations collections directly from the local interlocutors and with the comfort of surveys lead in other contexts, has estimated how many members of the crews of the ships that they have called at were effectively come down to earth, how much had spold so as how much of such value it had been delayed locally, succeeding in to attribute to the territory of the province spezzina falling back directed of the expenses of the members of the crew pairs almost 1,96 million euros.

In addition to the expenses supported from the people to earth (crocieristi and members of the crew) they go some taken in consideration others: it is the costs of the supported technical-nautical services during the route from the companies, that they recognize to the ports of call previewed the harbour and terminalistiche rates, is the expenses supported directly or indirectly from the company in order to acquire the goods and services necessary to compose the tourist produced one offered to the crocieristi. They are attributed of the reconstructed values of expense thanks to the listening of many operators - companies of cruise and several suppliers - engaged in the listed activities, is spezzini (in particular the marine agencies with relative disbursment the accounts) that national and international. The study clarifies that through several phases of calculation it has been reached to determine a value of expense of the companies of cruise for La Spezia, that excludes the costs of tour operating of excursions to earth already included in the esteem of the expenses supported from the crocieristi, little advanced to 6,25 million euros.

The total contribution of the crocieristica activity for the territory of in 2015 is estimable therefore in a direct expense of 30,9 million euros.

With respect to the indirect and induced economic effects, the elaborations realized from the working group have carried to on a national level indicate in 96 million euros the contribution total generated in 2015 from the direct expenses to the crocieristica activity.

"Finally - the president of the Harbour Authority of has commented, Lorenzo Forcieri - today the positive effects are known more precisely on the territory produced from the field cruises. The economic values today introduced are the base on which renewing the engagement that gives to various years Harbour Authority spezzina and the several operators profondono in the widening and continuous improvement of the services offered to the companies and the passengers. Now we work in order to still supply put up certainties to the shipowners with the realization of the pier and the crocieristica station".

"Beyond 40 listened to local interlocutors in these months - it has added to Francesco di Cesar, president of Answers Turismo - they have made to emerge as, besides the results as soon as cited, the ferment around the crocieristica has joined in tissue economic premises and of it has favorite a revitalization giving new impulses to the destination that join the already important fallen back economic ones today illustrated".