In 2017 a reduction of the -7,1% of the crocieristico traffic in the Italian ports is attended



According to the last projections on the evolution of the crocieristico traffic in Italy elaborated by Answers Tourism, society of search and advising to service of the tourist macroindustry, and contained inside of the seventh edition of its Special publication "Cruises", in the 2017 will record a reduction of the -7,1% of the passengers enlivened between it embarks, it disembarks and transits in the Italian crocieristici ports, with a total of 10,3 million passengers regarding 11,1 million in 2016, and with a touched decrease of the -9,6% of the ship, with a forecast of 4.500 regarding the 4,980 last year in the same ports of call.

According to the last forecasts, to year-end the number of able ports could come down from four to three to enliven more than million than fleeting ones, than in the 2017 they will be Civitavecchia for which a traffic of 2,2 million crocieristi (- 5.9%), Venice with beyond 1,4 million waited for passengers (- 11.4%) and Naples with about a million (- 23.4% is previewed). To follow Genoa with 950 thousand crocieristi (- 6.6%), Savona with 940 thousand (+3.3%), Livorno with 698 thousand (- 13.5%), La Spezia with 500 thousand (+0.2%), Palermo with 450 thousand (- 11.8%), Cagliari with 449 thousand (+74.0%), Bari with 400 thousand (0%), Messina with 382 thousand (+4.0%) and Olbia and Porto Torres with 220 thousand (+5.9%).

"Eleven million passengers - it has found president of Answers Turismo, Francesco di Cesar - continue to being the number around which the crocieristico traffic in Italy oscillates, sometimes exceeding such threshold, sometimes coming down under it. After two years of increase and stability - it has added - 2017 it will make to record a wide inferior number to the cited threshold, result to without a doubt read in critical key but still more which warning for the future. More than half of the first ten national ports of call it will record a contraction, in some meaningful case. Venice after to have lost the third position in the top ten of the Mediterranean it could lose also the fourth and come down to the fifth place; it embarks/disembarks, still more of the transits, I am in progressive contraction, and the question of Italians who cruise does not seem to be able to return to the numbers that recorded some year ago".

"There is need - it has emphasized of Cesar - of attention, investments and coordination in order to make sure that the crocieristica for Italy continuous to represent a heralding field of great results".

The new edition of the "Special Cruises" contains also an analysis of the offer of places read on the cruise ships for destination area. According to the elaborations of Answers Tourism, in the 2017 Mediterranean more lowland of last the 10 years could record the quota percentage on the world-wide total, pairs to 15.5%, regarding 18.3% of 2016 and to 16.4% of 2007. In particular, the forecasts for the year in course see to the first place Caribbean (35.6%) followed from Mediterranean (15.5%) and Mediterranean extra Europe (11.5%). Between the other world-wide areas it detaches the quota Asia (10.9%) more and more near the podium although ten years ago it was to 1.5%, to demonstration of the increase of the crocieristico market in such geographic area.

The report contains also classifies it of the first ten ports of the Mediterranean for number of passengers enlivened in 2016. Italy boasts five ports of call very in classifies, with Civitavecchia to according to place (about 2,3 million behind of Barcelona with about 2,7 million), Venice to the quarter (about 1,6 million behind of Palma de Mallorca with about 1,63), Naples to sixth (about 1,3 million), Genoa to the eighth (little more than a million) and Savona to ninth (about 910 thousand).