Number of cruise lines and cruise ships visiting UK ports 2010-2018

* Figures for number of cruise ships refer to the total number of individual cruise ships which called at UK ports. The number of cruise lines refers to the number of individual branded cruise lines.

The data in 2018 was based on 70 ports that were contacted for information on cruise ship visits.

The source adds the following information regarding the methodology:
"Not all the information requested was available from all ports. Where no information was available, the statistic was estimated with the following regime.
• If a cruise ship was known to have called at a port but no passengers were given an estimate of the passengers was imputed from information given by other ports.
• If the number of ships was known to have called at a port but the name of the cruise ships and passenger figures were not available, sources like crew-center were used to help compile lists of ships visiting a port. If data was completely lacking and to fill in missing information, an estimate of the number of passengers was imputed from the average number of passengers per ship at other ports."