In spite of the low dollar exchange rate which makes it expensive to visit Denmark, 291 liners have called at the Langelinie quay this year.

Copenhagen scored a record high turnover of cruise liners this year. And the season continues. Three cruise liners will call at Langelinie for Christmas visits in December with many thousand passengers.

This year Copenhagen Port had approximately 300 cruise liner calls with approximately half a million passengers. A considerable increase compared with previous years. In 2003, 268,000 cruise passengers arrived in Copenhagen. And the cruise liners become larger and larger. Liners with 3,100 passengers at a time are normal.

As of next year a new clientele of cruise guests will arrive in Copenhagen. It is the US travel agency Altanis Event which arranges cruise travels for gays and lesbians. The travel agency markets cruises to ports in the Baltic Sea region under the motto ‘some of the most gay progressive and gay welcoming places in the world’.

“This year’s cruise season is expected to end at 291 calls. It is 12 more than last year and seven more than the previous record of calls in 2005,” says cruise director Per Schmidt from Copenhagen Malmø Port to Børsen Business Daily.

At the moment Copenhagen Port has been nominated for “Europe’s Leading Cruise Destination of World Travel Award Committee”.