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CLIA put out the following stats of Brits who took a cruise in 2013 and computed the increase to be 5% over the previous year.  In fact, looking at the numbers one sees that the reality was that there was only a 1% increase.

Number of Britons Reported Cruising In 2012-13
CLIA 2012 Statistic for UK cruisers in 2012: 1,701,000
CLIA 2013 Statistic released in January 2014 1,790.000 (5% growth)
CLIA 2013 Stat. released in March 2014 (CSM) 1,726,000 (1% growth)

During Cruise Shipping Miami earlier this month CLIA Europe released new figures saying that the number of UK cruisers in 2013 had been 1,726,000, up only 25,000 on 2012. The difference is 64,000 passengers and the new figure means that the actual increase 2013 over 2012 in the UK was only 1% and not 5% as had been announced in January.

We all know that certain UK lines have been carrying fewer passengers but we wonder how such a large discrepancy could come about. A difference of 64,000 is enough to fill Fred Olsen’s 809-berth Boudicca for two years or the 2,620-berth Queen Mary 2 almost twenty-five times across the Atlantic!

The good news for UK ports is that the number of Brits embarking in the UK is rapidly approaching a million.

Credit for this story goes to David Monk and his blog Shipmonk, for recognizing a major discrepancy in the numbers of Britons reported to have gone cruising last year.

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