Following constructive leads to 2023, the cruise business within the Caribbean has been seeing a resurgence in guests in 2024. Near 32 million vacationers cruised in 2023, a seven p.c improve over 2019, with extra anticipated to journey in 2024.
In keeping with the Cruise Traces Worldwide Affiliation (CLIA)’s 2024 State of the Cruise Industry report, over 44% of these vacationers had been to the Caribbean. This quantity is greater than double the 18.5% who sailed to the next-highest area, the Mediterranean.
The 12.9 million cruise vacationers to the Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda in 2023 grew by a million guests when evaluating 2023 to 2019.
The Bahamas noticed nearly 40% greater than 2019 ranges, whereas in Barbados, 2024 guests are anticipated to exceed its 2023 numbers by nearly 200,000. Curacao can be anticipated to ship a 13% uptick in cruise vacationers in comparison with 2023 totals.
Following a close to 30% improve in 2023 in contrast with 2022, Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s tourism minister reaffirmed guests on the Seatrade Cruise Global convention in Miami Seaside, that the nation is setting a goal of over 400,000 annual cruise guests.
Whereas there was vital will increase in a number of locations within the area, there may be room for progress in different island international locations hoping to draw vacationers.
One such metropolis which has seen a rise of twenty-two p.c over the January and February months in comparison with 2023 has been Cozumel. Cozumel recorded the arrival of 900,000 cruise passengers on this timeframe with 75 ships docking within the preliminary 14 days of 2024.
The Port of Cozumel is the fourth most visited port on the planet welcoming greater than two million cruise passengers annually. The island within the Caribbean Sea welcomes cruise ships and passengers from world wide with all the key cruise traces stopping on the Punta Maya, Punta Langosta and SSA México delivery terminals on the island of Cozumel.
The once-secluded hideaway is one in every of Mexico’s most-visited places within the Caribbean area. Dwelling to clear turquoise waters, this comparatively small island off the coast of Playa del Carmen is understood for its pristine seashores and being a premier diving vacation spot.
With numerous actions on land and within the water, it’s an island paradise in each sense of the time period. The glistening tropical paradise is residence to luxurious resorts, Mayan historical past and trendy facilities.
In comparison with different areas in Mexico, Cozumel has a really low crime price and is taken into account a really secure space to journey to.
