Apart from the optimism professed by the managers of the main companies in the sector, either expressed by conviction or To reassure investors, few would have predicted Such a rapid and full recovery of the cruise industry after the devastating impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on This market that has literally come to a standstill for almost a year and a half. At the height of the global health emergency, even those Few would have guessed that the cruise industry would not It would have resumed the sustained pre-crisis growth trend, but that would set new records.

This was also the case for the Norwegian Cruise group Line Holdings, which operates through the Norwegian Cruise Line brands, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises and who finished third This year's quarter with a new all-time record in revenue quarterly results of $2.54 billion, which represents an increase of +57.0% over the third quarter of 2022 and an increase of €330.5 million compared to the previous record set in the second quarter of 2023, as well as an increase of +32.5% compared to the third quarter of 2019 when the pandemic was not still started.

The new all-time high was achieved thanks to both the new record for the value of cruises purchased by customers, which is amounted to $1.73 billion, a growth of +56.8% on the third quarter of 2022 and an increase of +26.2% on the third quarter of 2019, as well as the new record of sales on board the ships that stood at $802.4 million, with increases of +57.5% and +48.6% respectively on non-performing loans 2022 and 2019 quarters.

Record quarterly turnover was recorded also as a result of the increase in the number of passengers embarking on ships of the group, which in the third quarter of 2023 were 751 thousand, This number represents an increase of +40.6% over the third quarter of 2019. 2022, an increase of +1.9% over the third quarter of 2019 and is Almost 83,000 passengers were only lower than the record recorded in the third quarter of 2018.

Third quarter of 2018 in which the New records of operating profit and net profit quarterly figures, values that in any case in the third quarter of 2023 are very high results, amounting to €523.3 million and $345.9 million, versus negative results for -$185.2 million and -$295.4 million in the third quarter of 2019 2022.