BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados’ winter cruise season statistics for 2023/2024 have surpassed these for 2022/2023. Minister of Tourism and Worldwide Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill disclosed this throughout Wednesday’s Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Girl inaugural welcome ceremony.
Edghill famous that just a few weeks in the past, he shared the “promising” projected figures for the 2023/2024 season, which had been 392 cruise calls with an estimated 715 527 cruise passengers. He mentioned when in comparison with final season’s statistics, which had been 358 calls with 608,269 cruise passengers, “this interprets to a projected 18 p.c enhance 12 months on 12 months”.
“We’re solely midway by means of the season, however I’m happy to replace you that this winter season is performing nicely to this point, as predicted. Our half-term studies from October to December 2023 point out that we’ve got welcomed 131 calls, with 66 of those calls homeporting in Barbados and a mean occupancy charge of 96 p.c.
“From these calls, we’ve got welcomed 227,548 cruise passengers to the island. Once we evaluate this information to figures from final winter 2022/2023 season for a similar interval, October to December 2022, we’re seeing a rise in cruise calls of 11 p.c and a subsequent enhance in cruise passengers of 26 p.c, 12 months on 12 months,” Gooding-Edghill reported.
He added that the regular restoration of the sector publish the COVID-19 pandemic is a testomony to the “exhausting work” of these within the business whose efforts assist to make sure that Barbados’ cruise sector can attain pre-pandemic ranges.
“I commend the Barbados Tourism Advertising and marketing Inc., the Barbados Port Inc., the port brokers, journey brokers, tour and taxi operators, points of interest suppliers, and all those that work assiduously to make sure that Barbados’ cruise tourism product stays in excessive demand,” the Tourism minister mentioned.
The tourism minister additionally indicated that the ministry would proceed to hunt new alternatives and methods of doing enterprise to create a greater tourism expertise for its companions and guests.
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