The data displays the number of lower berths in the global cruise industry from 2011 to 2018. In 2017, the number of lower berths in the the global cruise industry was 490,000. This figure was forecasted to rise to 521,000 by 2018.
Worldwide cruise industry - additional information
The history of the leisure cruise industry begins in the first half of the 19th century, when the shipping line Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, operating between England and the Iberian Peninsula, first started to accommodate passengers.
