The cruise sector answered the last demand for the Coainst Megacruises platform for A more stringent restriction on cruise liners in palm Refuting that 546 ships are planning for this year. This was an increase, but the number, as they say, is an Aroud 500, quite a lot in accordance with 2024.
Agreement between the Government of the Balearian and cruise operatorsThe validity expires at the end of next year, there was a maximum of three cruise with more than 500 passages per day and only to be only to be 5,000 or more.
According to Beatrice Oredzhudo, the General Director of the Lantimar shipping agent, an agreement is respected. It is one of the representatives of the Government Covenant sector on the sustainable development of tourism. Having said that the sector is open for a dialogue concerning a new agreement, she explains that the existing location was voluntary, adding that “before entering the clinic Overflow really comes from cruise liners; We do not believe. “
Orejudo notes that the total number Cruise passengers arrive in the palm tree It fell 1.5% to 1.8 million in 2024, while the drop in transit Passians exceeded – from 4.5% to 318,000. Platform forecasts are based on unrealistic extrapolation from arriving during the first few months of this year. She notes that the goal that you were to increase the low season.
Speaking on behalf of the platform on Thursday, Jaume Garau from the Palma XXI association said that “the alleged wealth that brings cruises is not so great.” Orejudo claims that studies show that Palma enterprises have won for the melody 31.8 million euros in 2024 But this was compared with 33.3 million in 2023, when in 2019 there were 1.9 million passengers, and compared to 37.1 million euros in 2019 (2.2 million passengers).
