December 13 (SeeNews) - A total of 33 foreign cruise ships made 184 journeys to Croatian seaports in the first 10 months of 2021, up from 10 vessels that made 26 journeys in the same period last year but still below the pre-pandemic numbers of 2019, the country's statistical office said.
There were 178,959 passengers on board the cruise ships that visited Croatia in January-October 2021, up from just 4,138 in the same period of last year, when the tightening of COVID-19 restrictions led to a drop in the number of passengers, the statistical office said in a monthly report last week.
Compared to the first 10 months of 2019, the number of journeys of foreign vessels on cruise was lower by 72.6%, the total number of sojourns by 63.2% and the number of passengers on board those vessels by 83.1%.
In the first 10 months of 2021, foreign cruise ships on journeys to Croatia visited the port of Dubrovnik 146 times, Split followed with 90 visits, Korcula with 50, Sibenik with 38 and Hvar with 37 visits.