{"id":57556,"date":"2017-06-28T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/cruise-ships-brought-625000-tourists-to-dubai\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:26:18","slug":"cruise-ships-brought-625000-tourists-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/cruise-ships-brought-625000-tourists-to-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ships brought 625,000 tourists to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai &ndash; Over 625,000 cruise tourists visited Dubai via Port Rashid, where is located the passenger terminal for luxury cruises in the emirate, reported the <em>Emirates News Agency (WAM)<\/em> this Wednesday (28), based on data made available by the Dubai Cruise Tourism. The volume of tourists increased 15% in the 2016\/2017 season in comparison to the previous one, while ship calls grew 18% with 157. <\/p>\n<p>The season ended with the departure of the C.S. Sea Princess from Port Rashid after a call in the United Arab Emirates, the only one among the Gulf countries of the 104-day cruise that circles the globe. Before Dubai, the 857 feet-ship that can carry over 3,000 passengers had a call in Colombo, Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n<p>Among the attractions of the last season, the highlight was the Thomsom Cruises, a British cruise line that visited the region for the first time &ndash; in all, there were eight maiden ship calls in the last season. &ldquo;We are very pleased with the success o four 2016\/2017 cruising season, and with the city&rsquo;s sustained popularity as a winter cruise destination,&rdquo; said Jamal Humaid Al Falasi, director of Dubai Cruise Tourism, according to <em>WAM<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The executive thanked port manager DP World, immigration, Dubai&rsquo;s Customs and Emirates Airlines for the cooperation. &ldquo;Bolstered by our recente success and our upcoming partnerships over the coming seasons, we are confident we will achieve our strategic goal of welcoming 1 million cruise tourists to Dubai by 2020\/2021 cruise season,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the 2017\/2018 season is scheduled for October 25 with the arrival of the ship Seabourn Encore. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-190647\">SOEREN STACHE\/ZB\/DPA\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volume of passengers that came to the emirate in luxury cruises increased 15% in the 2016\/2017 season, reported the Dubai Cruise Tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":190647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"The volume of passengers that came to the emirate in luxury cruises increased 15% in the 2016\/2017 season, reported the Dubai Cruise Tourism.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}