Barbados’ 2023/2024 winter cruise season has surpassed expectations, attaining outstanding milestones.
Stories are that it has surpassed the statistics for the 2022/2023 interval.
Minister of Tourism and Worldwide Transport, Ian Gooding-Edghill, revealed that the season’s projected 18 per cent year-on-year improve turned a actuality.
With 392 cruise calls and an estimated 715,527 passengers, the numbers outshone the earlier yr’s 358 calls and 608,269 passengers.
Mid-season glory
Mid-season information for October to December 2023 confirmed good outcomes.
Barbados welcomed 131 calls, with 66 as homeports, boasting a outstanding 96 % occupancy price.
This translated right into a heat welcome for 227,548 cruise passengers.
Minister Gooding-Edghill praised the business’s resilience post-COVID-19, crediting the Barbados Tourism Advertising Inc., the Barbados Port Inc., and others for his or her dedication.
The minister shared that the tourism ministry will proceed to discover alternatives and new methods of doing enterprise to make a greater tourism expertise for its companions and guests.
