HONG KONG. Hong Kong’s two main cruise ports dealt with 1.7 million travellers in 2017, up +4.4% to the former 12 months. In just that, above seven hundred,000 passengers began and finished their cruise holiday getaway within the Kai Tak or Ocean terminals, a pointy rise of +58% compared for the past calendar year.

The figures originate from vacation analyst Air4casts which nowadays launched the primary of the number of reports within the world cruise current market.

Air4casts describes Hong Kong’s ‘homeporting’ overall performance (people who begun and finished their cruises there) as "stellar” and adds: "The passenger nationality blend is additionally excellent news for travel retail.”

In accordance into the analyst, above the earlier ten decades, the ‘homeporting’ component has risen sharply. In 2007 just 133,000 passengers ended up Hong Kong-based which dropped to 100,000 during the world wide economic crisis of 2009. On the other hand, by 2015 the industry had much more than trebled to 379,000 and last 12 months it strike 708,000.

Better Chinese cruisers dominate

Among them, Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Macau and Taiwanese cruisers accounted for 80% of all holidaymakers who begun their journey from the Hong Kong cruise terminal final 12 months.

Above 50 percent of homeport cruisers lived in Hong Kong and these have much more than doubled in range due to the fact 2016. Outdoors the area, Mainland China and Taiwan markets, people in america and Australians produced up the balance from the major 5 nationalities.

Indian cruisers are viewing big growth

Excluding the Bigger Chinese area, Indian cruisers beginning their cruise immediately from Hong Kong grew quickest previous calendar year. Their figures soared by +255% to in excess of 12,000.

Japanese cruisers were not far behind in both growth and quantity phrases though Malaysian cruisers increased by +145% to only less than 10,000 and Thai nationals rose by +69%.

Air4casts extra: "Homeport cruise figures to the to start with quarter of 2018 clearly show no enable up during the fast rate of Indian homeport cruisers. They ended up up by very well above +200% within the same period in 2017.”

Hong Kong’s cruise terminals article healthier traveller development in 2017

Hong Kong’s cruise terminals put up healthful traveller progress in 2017

Hong Kong’s cruise terminals article wholesome traveller progress in 2017

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