A total of 1.07 million cruise passengers traveled through Türkiye’s ports in the January-July period this year, with 656 cruise ships calling at 18 ports, setting a record for the highest passenger volume ever recorded for the first seven months of a year since data collection began in 2011.
Türkiye welcomed 1,375 cruise ships and recorded 2.14 million passengers across 19 ports in 2025, the highest annual figure in the past 12 years.
In the first seven months of this year, 656 cruise vessels docked at 18 Turkish ports. Kuşadası remained the country’s busiest cruise destination during the period.
In July alone, 168 cruise ships called at Turkish ports, bringing total passenger traffic to 314,026.
Passenger traffic, including embarking, disembarking and transit passengers, totaled 480,983 passengers carried by 274 cruise ships in Kuşadası during the January-July period. Istanbul followed with 265,369 passengers aboard 119 cruise ships. Marmaris hosted 78,319 passengers on 28 cruise ships, while Bodrum recorded 68,633 passengers from 59 cruise ship calls. İzmir welcomed 66,398 passengers on 35 cruise ships.
