Cruise Cape Town expects strong recovery performance for 2022/23 season
Cruise Cape Town is gearing up for one of its biggest seasons to date,
with millions expected to be injected into the Western Cape economy.
Ships 108 to 295 meters in length, carrying between 100 and 2,500
passengers are booked for the upcoming season at the Port of Cape Town. After successful lobbying to restart the cruise season, the South
African cruise industry was opened on 1 October 2021, with 32 confirmed
ship visits to Cape Town for the 2021/22 season. However, due to global
Covid-19 travel restrictions in November, the season received
cancellations from world cruises, leaving it with 16 ship visits made up
of 12 cruise ships.
After two years of rolling pauses, Cruise
Cape Town says that it is delighted that a total of 104 ship visits,
made up of 26 cruise ships carrying more than 195,000 visitors, will be
expected to dock at the Port of Cape Town Cruise Terminal over the
upcoming 2022/23 season, which kicks off in October. With almost R100m
in total estimated passenger spend per port visit – an estimated R20m
for international passengers and R45m for domestic passengers - Cruise
Cape Town is also expecting a number of jobs to be created in both
downstream and upstream industries.
