Thursday 8 March 2012

One in every eight package holidays booked is now a cruise

One in every eight package holidays booked is now a cruise

UK cruise passenger numbers increased 5% and, with sales of Ultra

Luxury cruises rising 8%, total cruise sales spending topped £2.4bn

The average price paid rose less than 1% in 2011

More than four in every 10 cruises were bought for less than £1,000

Four out of every ten passengers were on their first-ever cruise

About 100,000 more UK passengers chose to start their cruise at

a UK port but higher flight costs saw a drop in flycruise numbers

Western Europe, Atlantic Islands, Norway and the Mediterranean

were the big cruise destination winners in 2011

An emerging trend for short cruises from UK ports meant that

nearly half of all cruises booked were of no more than seven nights

A second successive year of double digit growth in overseas and

UK passengers making a cruise visit at UK ports

Eight in ten passengers book cruises through travel agents

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