{"id":593,"date":"2011-04-04T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=593"},"modified":"2011-04-04T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T03:11:00","slug":"cruise-weekly-all-time-high-for-aussie-cruise-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/cruise-weekly-all-time-high-for-aussie-cruise-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Weekly: All time high for Aussie cruise industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><b>\u00a0<br \/><\/b>There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 &#8211; up\u00a0100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p>ICCA chairman Gavin Smith\u00a0said the surge reflected the increase in locally based ships, as well as the strong Australian dollar driving interest in cruising in Europe and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0top destination for Aussie cruisers was the\u00a0South Pacific, accounting for 37%\u00a0of the total, while about 19% cruised to Australian ports and 10% visited New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the results equated to\u00a02.1% of the Australian population taking a cruise &#8211; a\u00a0big increase\u00a0on the 2009 market penetration figure of 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>More information in today&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>Travel Daily <\/em><\/strong>and tomorrow&#8217;s <strong><em>Cruise Weekly<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released. A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 &#8211; up\u00a0100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago. ICCA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}