Cancun, QR. The estimate of the State Tourism Secretariat establishes that at the end of 2021 Quintana Roo received more than 800,000 cruise passengers, between Cozumel and Mahahual.
Of the total, more than 600,000 cruise passengers are captured by Cozumel, and the rest by the Gran Costa Maya, where Mahahual is located.
For the start of the year, between January 1 and 9, Isla de las Golondrinas already has 35 berths scheduled, despite reports of Covid-19 infections in recent weeks aboard these ocean liners.
In the case of Mahahual, the estimate indicates that it received around 110 cruises throughout the second half of 2021, since during the first six months the paralysis of the industry continued, which lasted from March 2020 to the second half of June. from last year.
Cozumel closed with a total of 354 cruises and more than 600,000 tourists. In the June-November period, the island already reported 230 berths and a total of 403,994 passengers, that is, an average of 1,756 tourists per ship, more than half of the 3,000 that on average mobilized these ocean liners before the protocols sanitary
Since August 2021, Cozumel had already normalized the arrivals of the five main shipping companies that docked on the island before the pandemic (Norwegian Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, MSC and Disney Cruise Line), in addition to incorporating new ones such as British Virgin Voyages, a subsidiary of Virgin Atlantic airline, with its cruise ship Sacarlet Lady with capacity for 2,770 passengers and 1,160 crew members.
The more than 600,000 cruise passengers with whom the island closed the year still represent levels below that registered in 2020, a year in which despite the pandemic it received 1.13 million passengers during the first three months of the year, since as of March the Shipping companies canceled all their itineraries worldwide.
These numbers mean that the island captured only 53% of this total in the second half of 2021.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx