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# Cruise spending sails to record high
- URL: https://hospitality.pro/cruise-spending-sails-record-high/
- Published: 2017-10-05T13:04:30.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-20T02:33:01.000Z
- Author: Holedo
- Tags: Hospitality Industry News, jobs, Tourism News, #wordpress, #Import 2026-04-16 12:15

*London – 5 October 2017 –*   
Cruise lines, their passengers and crew spent a record US$21.69 billion in the US in 2016, up 15 percent since 2011 and representing a new peak in the US cruise industry expenditures, according to a new study from Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the world’s largest cruise industry trade association.

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CLIA’s 2016 Economic Impact Analysis shows that total contributions of the global cruise industry to the US economy reached a record US$47.76 billion in 2016, up 3.6 percent from 2014\. This includes generating 389,432 US jobs paying more than US$20.5 billion in wages and salaries.

According to CLIA’s study, 11.66 million cruise passengers worldwide embarked from US ports in 2016, setting a new high and growing 5.4 percent since 2014.