Number of foreign cruise ships visiting Croatia down 16.3%

A total of 644 foreign cruise ships visited Croatia in the first ten months of 2017, down 16.3 percent compared with the same period in 2016, carrying 892,200 passengers or nearly 13 percent fewer than last year, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics show.

The foreign cruise ships spent 1,359 days in the Croatian Adriatic, which is 18 percent less than in the first ten months of 2016. Most of them sailed under the flags of the Bahamas, Malta, Italy and Panama.

Nearly 65 percent of all visits were registered in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, where most of the ships registered their first entry into the Croatian territorial sea. Split-Dalmatia County recorded 18.3 percent of the visits, while the other visits were recorded by the remaining five Adriatic counties.

In October alone, 104 foreign cruise ships visited the Croatian Adriatic, 8 percent fewer than in October 2016. February was the only month this year to see more foreign cruise ships than last year.

(Hina)

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