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CLIA commissions projects with world-renowned research partners to produce a broad slate of highly credible facts to promote the cruise industry's ongoing positive impacts on the world. To supplement these projects, CLIA conducts a variety of in-house research activities via polling as well as aggregation and anonymisation of collected Member data to tell important industry-level stories.

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2025 Europe Source Passenger Market Report
In 2025, Europe produced 8.9 million source passengers who took an ocean-going cruise anywhere in the world. This represents a 5.3% increase from the 8.4 million Europeans who sailed in 2024. Overall, Europeans sailed for an average of 8.6 days per cruise, slightly down from 8.8 in the prior year. Average ages of sailing guests increased by half a year, from 48.0 to 48.5 years.

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Contribution of Cruise Tourism to the European Economy 2024
In this report, we examine how the cruise industry in 2024 supported economic impacts acrossEurope, including a detailed assessment of the cruise industry’s impact on its top 10 markets.Accounting for over a third of the global total, direct cruise-linked spending in Europe totaled €31.3 billion, up 17% from 2023. Cruise line purchases were the largest spend component at €13.7 billion, followed by ship- and capacity-building at €9.6 billion. Passenger and crew spending amounted to €6.4 billion, while cruise line staff wages made the smallest contribution to direct cruise-linked spending at €1.7 billion.

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Cruise Port Profile Study: Mykonos
Over 1.3M cruise passengers passed through Mykonos in 2024, along with 215k crew members; combined, they spent €126M in passenger and crew spending onshore. This direct spend, when combined with cruise line spend as well as indirect and induced impacts, amounted to €201M in total output from cruise related activity in Mykonos in 2024. With an average spend intensity at €19 per hour while in the port, the average per-passenger spend in Mykonos was €107, with the largest spend categories being eating & drinking, shopping, and taking guided tours.

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Cruise Port Profile Study: Marseille
Marseille Provence Cruise Terminal (MPCT) welcomed almost 1.8 million transit passengers in 2024, offering them access to the city for day visits during their cruise. An additional 660,000 passengers either embarked or disembarked on a cruise from MPCT during the year. Taken together, cruise-related spending resulted in a total economic impact of €610 million in the Provence economy in 2024, supporting €279 million in GDP.

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2024 Europe Source Passenger Market Report
European source markets in 2024 generated an impressive 8.4 million cruise passengers who set sail on itineraries worldwide. This marks a 3% increase over the previous year’s 8.2 million passengers and reflects the steady, sustainable growth of the cruise market across the continent.

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Contribution of Cruise Tourism to the European Economy 2023
In 2023, the global cruise industry experienced record activity, marking its first year of full recovery from the pandemic.

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Made in Europe
Cruise is a European success story. About 97% of the world’s fleet of cruise ships was built in Europe, and 98% of ships on order, based on cost, will be built here.

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2023 Europe Market Report
Europe as a source market produced 8.2m passengers in 2023, a 6.5% increase from 2019’s 7.7m.

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Joint Rhodes Declaration
On 9 April 2024, association representatives from the European travel and tourism sector (business and leisure) met in Rhodes, Greece, to sign a landmark declaration promising decisive action towards more sustainable travel and tourism.

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Strategic Agenda for the European Cruise Industry 2024 – 2029
The cruise industry is a vital part of the European maritime industry value-chain. As 94,55% of the world’s ocean-going cruise ships are built by European shipyards, cruise ship building is a critical contributor to the maintenance of European know-how and in complex shipbuilding and maritime innovation.

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