The Mayor of the Ålesund Municipality of Ålesund, Björn Tömmerdal, visited Seatrade in March this year. He told Cruise Europe News that he is both interested in learning more about the industry and keen to his visit is also meant to be a support to the people from of Ålesund by representing the destination in Miami. „Admittedly,” says the mayor, „cruise visits generate perhaps 3% of the port's total revenue and, as such, do not greatly effect affect the port's economy to any extend.
But the positive thing for Ålesund is that we have had an incredible fantastic growth whenincrease it comes toin the number of visiting vessels. In 2008, we had 75 vessels, and if we compared to just that to 5five years back it waswhen we had less than 50. Our goal is to have 100 cruise ships visit Ålesund during the season and that is a tough aim’s an ambitious target.
