China has become an important market for the global cruise tourism. In 2021 and 2022, however, due to COVID-19 pandemic related travel restrictions, the number of cruise passengers from mainland China amounted to only 6,000 and 2,000, respectively. The market saw a slight recovery in 2023.
Number of passengers from mainland China taking a cruise vacation from 2013 to 2023
(in 1,000s)
According to the source, the passenger statistics are provided by CLIA's ocean cruise line members, which covered over 95 per cent of the global cruise industry capacity. Additional data was also collected from non-CLIA cruise lines by CHART Management Consultants. However, mainland China figures in 2022 might be slightly understated as no data was available for one cruise brand which was active in China occasionally in 2022.
To serve a consistent manner, one-night cruises were excluded in the analyses.
Data before 2019 were retrieved from the previous publications.
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