2022/23 Cruise season

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Noticias:

Norwegian Cruise changes Asia for the Canary Islands and includes Puerto del Rosario.

After a 22-day transatlantic voyage from Miami to Lisbon, Norwegian Sun will begin sailing in and around the Canary Islands starting November 21. Passengers can choose to join the trips, which last between 10 and 14 days, from one of the three ports of embarkation: Lisbon, Portugal; Malaga, Spain: and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands.

 

"The Canary Islands have always been an attraction for travelers from all over the world and more so now that they are looking for the winter sun they so desperately need," said Harry Sommer, president and CEO of NCL. "Norwegian Sun's new itineraries provide a unique combination of the Canary Islands with ports in Portugal, mainland Spain and Morocco, offering our guests a year-round European season with nine ships to make the most of their voyage this year."

 

Ports of call will include some that are completely new to the line, including Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) and San Sebastián de la Gomera in the Canary Islands; Cueta in Spain; Agadir, Morocco; and Horta (Azores) in Portugal. Cruise ships will also visit iconic landmarks such as Casablanca in Morocco and Cadiz, Las Palmas and Arrecife in Spain.

 

Itineraries are port intensive with no more than two days at sea and an average of 12 hours in port time with overnight stays in Lisbon, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas and Casablanca. Select trips have night stops in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Funchal (Madeira).

 
Including Norwegian Sun, nine NCL ships will sail in European waters this summer, the most in the cruise line's history.

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Noticias:

Fuerteventura loses 41.6% of cruise passengers compared to 2019.

Although tourism has been recovering in almost the entire state, in the Canary Islands and Fuerteventura during that 2022, with more than interesting numbers especially this summer, the recovery has not occurred in cruise ships, where the volume of travelers is still far from that registered in the pre-pandemic year.

 

In this way, the monthly report of Cruise Passenger Traffic in the Canary Islands Ports, prepared by the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry of the Autonomous Government, is expressed. In this sense, the Canary Islands have lost almost half of the cruise passengers it had in 2019.

 

Between January and July 2022, 766,057 people visited the Islands on board cruise ships, 47.7% less than in the same period of 2019, when there were 1,455,416 travelers.

 

This drop was slightly higher in the province of Las Palmas than in Santa Cruz. In the first seven months of 2022, the docks of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria received 450,479 passengers, far from the 870,031 of 2019. This represents a decrease of 48.2%, with 419,552 fewer passengers.

 

In the eastern islands, the port of Arrecife, in Lanzarote, was the one that registered the greatest decrease, of 49.9%. It fell from 281,267 cruise passengers in 2019 to 140,912 in 2022 (figures from January to July). In Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, travelers fell by 49.4% (from 440,610 to 223,079) and in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, they decreased by 41.6% (from 148,154 to 86,488).

 

With regard to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the arrival of cruise passengers was cut by 46.1% compared to the pre-pandemic figures. Between January and July 2022, the Western Isles received 315,578 visitors from cruise ships, 269,807 fewer than in the same period in 2019.

 

In San Sebastián de la Gomera the fall was much milder, only 9.7% compared to the pre-pandemic figures (from 37,461 to 33,820 in 2022).

 

La Palma was the one that experienced a more marked decrease, going from 141,702 to 63,422 (55.2% less). Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the other hand, lost 46.9% of the cruise passengers it had before the pandemic (from 403,964 to 214,368).

 
In San Sebastián de la Gomera the fall was much milder, only 9.7% compared to the pre-pandemic figures (from 37,461 to 33,820 in 2022). As for El Hierro, this is the only island that registers more tourists than before the pandemic. There the number rose by 51.5%: from the 2,258 it had in the first seven months of 2019 to the 3,421 it received from January to July 2022.

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This is a good link for seeing what is in harbour, or due in:

Cruise arrivals at Puerto de Rosario

Saw the first of the season today, I think, one of the Costas.