November cruise passenger traffic drops 22.5%
- Cruise passenger traffic in June down by 50%
- Cruise passenger traffic up by 25% in October
- Cruise pasengers down by 24.1% in August
- Cruise passenger traffic down by 22% in October
- Cruise passenger traffic down by 17.4% in April
- Cruise passenger traffic in 2008 up by 13.9%
- Cruise passengers decreased by 1,113 in March
- February cruise passenger traffic totalled 14,180
- Cruise passengers down 28% in January
- Cruise passenger traffic decreases by 1,530 persons in October
- Cruise passenger traffic increases in May
- Cruise passenger traffic decreased by 60.1 per cent in March
- Cruise passenger traffic up 21.4% in June 2008
- Cruise passenger traffic rises by 47.9 percent in November
- Cruise passengers down 22.4% January to November
In November 2008, cruise passenger traffic in Malta comprised 44,441 persons, a decrease of 22.5 per cent over the comparative month in 2007.
November 2008
Total cruise passenger traffic amounted to 44,441, a decrease of 12,925 passengers over the corresponding month in 2007. Embarkations from and landings in Malta stood at 445 and 550 persons respectively.
January-November 2008
Total cruise passenger traffic in Malta amounted to 540,724, an increase of 11.9 per cent over the comparative period last year. Passengers from EU countries accounted for 77.0 per cent of total traffic, the main markets being Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. On the other hand, the American market remained substantial, representing 57.6 per cent of non-EU incoming passengers. The overall growth in cruise passenger traffic was underpinned by increases in the American, British and Spanish markets. At the same time, the cruise passenger scene was characterised by falls in the German and Italian markets, of 27,743 and 13,437 passengers respectively.
On a gender basis, female passengers exceeded male ones by 1.2 per cent. The largest proportion of passengers – 33.2 per cent – comprised persons aged between 40 and 59, followed by those in the 60 to 79 age bracket who accounted for 30.7 per cent of the total.
Average number of passengers per cruise liner
The average number of passengers per cruise liner, which is defined as the number of cruise passengers divided by the number of cruise liner calls, increased to 1,434 passengers per vessel for of November.
There were 31 cruise liner calls in November, bringing the total for the first eleven months of the year to 389 compared to 366 in the corresponding period last year.
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