Trinidad and Tobago: A complete of 98 calls and a 46% enhance within the variety of passengers has been recorded for the 2023/2024 cruise season of Trinidad and Tobago. The statistics have marked the profitable winter season for the nation, with a rise in passenger arrivals, tourism participation, and financial impression.
The cruise 2023/2024 was began in Trinidad and Tobago on October 11, 2023, with the arrival of the Seabourn Cruises’ Seabourn Pursuit on its inaugural name. The cruise ship made its maiden voyage to the Port of Port-of-Spain with round 298 passengers, who had been welcomed by the Ministry of Tourism with entertaining performances of DJ, masqueraders, Moko Jumbies, and steelpan sounds.
Notably, the season ended with the maiden voyage of the luxurious vessel Island Sky, which docked on April 17, 2024, with the arrival of over 500 passengers. The arrival marked the tip of the cruise season, that includes the arrival of over 100,000 passengers.
The cruise season of Trinidad and Tobago has welcomed 177,579 passengers via completely different cruise vessels who explored the fantastic thing about the nation and selected pre-packaged excursions. Out of those passengers, a complete of 78,051 have been docked at Port of Port of Spain as 36 cruise ships have been given calls to the port.
However, a complete of 99,528 have been docked at each Scarborough and Charlotteville on this cruise season. The port of Scarborough welcomed 51 calls from the cruise ships, whereas Charlotteville welcomed 11 cruise calls.
As per the estimation, TTD$48,568,292 has been thought of as the whole quantity that the passengers have spent on cruise ships throughout the season. This 12 months, Trinidad and Tobago have welcomed six inaugural calls of the completely different vessels, marking the potential of the vacation spot.
The primary inaugural name was of the Seven Seas Splendor which has introduced 703 passengers, and the second vessel was the Silver Daybreak which provide you with 566 passengers. Island Sky additionally made its maiden voyage round Trinidad and Tobago with 96 passengers on board.
In the course of the inaugural go to of MSC Seaside at Port of Spain, the arrival of the passengers has been handed the twenty-thousand mark in Trinidad. It was the 18th name for the 2023/2024 cruise season which was docked on December 15, 2023.
With the return of Princess Cruises’s Ruby Princess, Trinidad welcomed 2,886 passengers and 1500 crew on this 12 months’s cruise season on November 15, 2023. It was the second cruise name of the season, marking the disembarking of the passengers for the pre-packaged excursions.
Trinidad additionally bid farewell to Jewel of the Seas which was the prime cruise ship for the nation for 2023/2024 cruise season. The ships have been docked for a number of instances on the nation, marking the arrival of 1000’s of passengers.
Along with that, the cruise calls have been given to 9 completely different cruise traces from throughout the globe, together with Royal Caribbean, MSC Voyager, Sea Dream, and plenty of extra. The variety of return calls stood at 13 for this 12 months’s cruise season.
With the cruise season, US$48,568,292 have been injected into the financial system of Trinidad and Tobago, out of which US$8.149,630 have been spent on excursions.
As per the suggestions of the guests, 75% would suggest Trinidad to a good friend or colleague, 95% would return to Trinidad on one other cruise, and 79% rated their vacation spot expertise in Trinidad between 9 and 10.
