Bodrum Cruise Port Closes 2024 Season with Record Passenger Numbers

This year, a total of 98 cruise ships were hosted Bodrum Cruise Port, hosted 118.083 passengers. In addition, the port became a stopover point for 722 ferry passengers with 138 ferry services. The port, which hosted 851 ships that had not visited Bodrum before throughout the year, opened the season with the Silver Spirit cruise ship on April 10, 7 and completed it with the visit of the same ship on November 2024, 8.

Aziz Güngör, Global Ports Holding Eastern Mediterranean Ports Director, said, “2025 Cruise Ship Departures Have Already Been Planned for 121. We Expect It to Be Another Record Year.”

Bodrum Cruise Port, which is part of the portfolio of Global Ports Holding, the world's largest cruise port operator, hosted a total of 2024 cruise ships and 98 cruise passengers in the 118.083 season. In ferry services between Bodrum and Kos, the season was closed with the Silver Spirit Cruise Ship on November 722, 138.851, serving 8 passengers with 2024 ferry services. Thus, the port hosted more than 256 thousand passengers in total. Bodrum opened the 2024 season on April 7 by hosting the Silver Spirit Cruise Ship again.

10 Ships Came to Bodrum for the First Time This Season

Bodrum, one of Turkey’s favorite tourism destinations, also hosted ships that arrived at the port for the first time. Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Symphony, Marella Cruises’ Marella Discovery, Regent Seven, Seven Seas Cruises’ Seven Seas Grandeur, Costa Crociere’s Costa Fortuna, Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Getaway, Silversea Cruises’ Silver Whisper, Silver Ray, MSC Explora Journeys’ MSC Explora I, Royal Carribbean Cruises’ Explorer of the Seas, and Aquilion Shiping’s Astoria Grande were the ships that anchored at Bodrum Cruise Port for the first time this season. These ships, arriving at the port for the first time, were welcomed with the Bodrum Band and sent off with a violin recital.

Record Expected in 2025 Season

Stating that they have started preparing for the 2025 season today, Aziz Güngör, Director of Eastern Mediterranean Ports of Global Ports Holding, said, “As Bodrum Cruise Port, we stand out with our high-standard infrastructure and operational know-how in cruise tourism, the rising star of the tourism sector. 2025 cruise voyages have already been planned for 121. We expect it to be another record year. Next year, we will have ships that will call at Bodrum Cruise Port for the first time. We are very pleased to see that Bodrum is becoming an increasingly popular cruise destination.”

Source: HORECA TREND and Global Ports Holding