Named the most popular destinations of cruises

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Названы самые популярные направления морских круизовAbout 27 million people in nyneshnem year go on vacation to cruises

It is expected that in 2018 will reach a record figure for the number of cruise passengers to 27.2 million people. For comparison, last year there were 1.4 million less. In recent years, the industry shows significant growth.

However, this situation causes tensions in dozens of destinations, including Venice, Dubrovnik and Palma de Mallorca. So, the people of Dubrovnik in the past year said that too many cruises are “ruining” their city. Although the court are not the only source of overpopulation. Another negative feature of call that cruise passengers spend very little money on the Bank and therefore does not help the local economy.

However, the British I hasten to note that the biggest region for swimming are not coastal cities of Europe, and the Caribbean. The most popular destination is Mexico, which in 2016 was visited by 6.7 million cruise passengers. Followed by the Bahamas, Greece, Spain, South Korea. Russia in this list is located on the 8th place from 1.67 million.

The experts also indicated areas where the number of tourists disembarking from cruise ships exceeds the number of local residents. So, on the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean sea on one inhabitant of 41.6 cruise passengers per year. In the Cayman Islands — 27.8 million passengers in the Turks and Caicos Islands is 23.8, in the British virgin Islands is 22.4. In the Bahamas the figure is 11.8 passengers per local resident, Malta — 1.4 passenger.

In the conclusion of their study, the British called the country in which cruise trips are most popular. Nearly half of all passengers departing from the US – 11.5 million people. This is followed by the Chinese – 2.1 million. Behind them, the Germans, the British and Australians.

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