January 9 (SeeNews) - A total of 82 foreign cruise ships made 627 journeys to Croatian seaports in the first 11 months of last year, rebounding from the same period of 2021 when only 36 cruises visited the Adriatic country on 205 journeys due to COVID-19-related restrictions, the country's statistical office said on Monday.
There were some 625,381 passengers on board the cruise ships that visited Croatia in January-November 2022, up 193,843 from some in the same period of 2021, the statistical office said in a monthly report.
Compared to the same period of 2019, the number of journeys of foreign cruise vessels was lower by 11.7% in January-November 2022, and the number of passengers on board on those vessels was down 43.6%.
In the first 11 months of 2022, foreign cruise ships on journeys to Croatia visited the port of Dubrovnik 408 times, Split followed with 267 visits, Zadar with 143 ones and Hvar with 98 visits.