February 10 (SeeNews) - The number of visits by foreign passenger cruise ships to Croatia's Adriatic ports rose 4.8% year-on-year in 2019, reaching 726, the country's statistical office said.
The number of passengers the ships carried on those visits increased by 8.4% to 1,120,727, the office of statistics said in a statement on Friday.
Passenger cruise ships sailing under the flag of Malta accounted for the highest number of cruise journeys to Croatia last year - 208, followed by the Bahamas-flagged vessels with 132. The biggest number of passengers - 287,111, travelled on board of vessels sailing under Panama's colours.
Dubrovnik was the most popular destination for foreign cruise journeys to Croatia in the review period, followed by Split and Zadar.