Cancun, QRoo.- In the first three months of the year Cozumel It already reaches 1.2 million cruise passengers, aboard 390 ocean liners docked at its three docks.
It is already a recovery of 88.4% compared to the 1.4 million captured in the same period of 2019, that is, before the covid-19 pandemic.
Compared to 2022, the growth is double and triple digits, since the number of berths on the island of Las Golondrinas has grown 12.7%; while in terms of number of passengers, the increase is 103%, since in the first quarter of 2022 the recruitment was 604,445 cruise passengers, that is, half of the slightly more than 1.2 million registered in the first three months. of year.
This very week, Cozumel first received the cruise Viking Octantis, a super luxury small boat from Argentina. “With the arrival of this new route from Argentina, Cozumel consolidates itself as the leader in cruise ship arrivals in Central America and the Caribbean,” Governor Mara Lezama said on social media.
slow recovery
At the end of 2022, the Directorate of Ports of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) announced that at the national level 6.6 million tourists were captured on board a total of 2,666 ocean liners.
Of that total, 62.1% was captured by only two ports, Cozumel and mahahualboth in Quintana Roowhich in total captured 4.1 million cruise passengers aboard 1,576 ships.
The figure at the national level last year was far from the levels of 2019, when the 28 cruise ports monitored by the SICT captured a total of 8.9 million cruise passengers aboard 2,951 ships.
In other words, the 6.6 million at the end of 2022 represented only a 74.1% recovery compared to the 8.9 million captured prior to the pandemic.
In 2019, Cozumel and mahahual They came to represent 68.5% of what was captured at the national level, since between both ports they reported having received 6.1 million tourists that year.
At the end of 2022, Cozumel It was still far from the figures prior to the health crisis, since the 2.9 million cruise passengers captured by the island represented 64.4% compared to the 4.5 million captured in 2019.
In the case of mahahualthe recovery has been faster, since the 1.2 million recruited in 2022 are already 75% of the 1.6 million recruited prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
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