The reality of 2020 sits in stark contrast to the year that immediately preceded it.

Is the cruise industry growing. Download Reports from 10000 trusted sources with ReportLinker. So much has happened in the nine months since cruisings pause in service first began. Like many businesses the cruise industry has been challenged by the COVID pandemic of 2020.

Ad Unlimited access to Cruise market reports on 180 countries. Since 2009 cruise ship passengers have grown from 178 million to 30 million an annual growth rate of 54. This global fleet amounted to a total of 109 million gross tons with 296000 beds.

With new cruise regions opening up like. Statistics show that in 2017 around 267 million people chose to go on a cruise followed by 285 million in 2018 and an estimated 32 million in. In 2019 the global cruise industry welcomed nearly 30 million passengers creating jobs for 18 million people around the world and contributing over 154 billion to the global economy.

According to The Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association FCCA the industrys total economic impact in 2016 was 126 billion and it employed 1 million people. The cruise industry is the fastest-growing category in the leisure travel market. In the past five years the demand has increased by 205 percent.

As of January 2004 there were 339 active oceangoing cruise ships. The cruise ship industry is the fastest growing segment in the travel industry and since 1980 the average annual growth rate of cruise passengers worldwide averages 80. Since 1980 the industry has experienced an average annual passenger growth rate of approximately 7 per annum.

From a capacity standpoint utilization is consistently over 100. The cruise industry is the fastest-growing category in the leisure travel market. In Asia the cruise industry is experiencing double-digit growth.