Source: Port de Barcelona and Turisme de Barcelona (2014). Cruise activity in Barcelona: Impact on the Catalan economy and socioeconomic profile of cruise passengers.
In 2014, the revenues resulting from cruise activities at the Port de Barcelona, the major cruise port in Europe, were estimated at an average of €202 spending per cruise passenger hosted in Barcelona with an overnight stay in a hotel. This is to be compared to the €57 average spending of cruise passengers without an overnight stay and the average €156 spending of a holiday tourist in the city with an overnight stay in a hotel. The same year, Barcelona port served 841 cruise calls and 2.6 million cruise passenger movements, 1.22 million of which used the port as the starting port of their cruise. In 2019, the number of cruisers per annum exceeded the three million threshold.
Per year, Barcelona was found to receive €315.8 million from cruise passenger spending, €121.2 million from cruise lines (shopping and fuel supply services, provisions, terminal services, travel agencies, and tour operator services, etc.), and €5.5 million from crew spending.
In 2018, CLIA calculated the spending of a passenger before boarding a cruise at $376 and the spending at a port while visiting during a cruise at $101.