The Balearics is now Europe’s fifth most popular cruise destination and the sixteenth in the World.
Palma.—Spanish ports received more than 7.66 million cruise passengers during 2013, which indicates an increase of 1.3% compared to the year before, and 3,846 cruise liners stopped in Spain, 3.3% more when compared to 2012, according to the State Port Authority, which cited 1.255 million euros as the amount of business generated by this industry.
Of the more than 60 million tourists that visited Spain, close to 5 million were cruise ship passengers, which means that around 8% of international tourism that came to the country did so through a port.
Total employment - direct, indirect, and inferred - generated by the cruise ship industry rose to 26,389 people last year.