UAE: multiple visas for cruise passengers
UAE: multiple visas for cruise passengers

UAE: multiple visas for cruise passengers


UAE plans to make the region more attractive for cruises by simplifying visa procedure. According to official information of Dubai Department of Tourism, in September clients of the world's leading cruise companies will be able to get multiple visas to the Emirates.
Currently obtaining of the UAE visas for the tourists is connected with a number of bureaucratic procedures and payments. Multiple visas allow tourists to avoid difficulties upon arrival in the UAE.

The new policy in the UAE is aimed at stimulating cruise passenger influx from the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Currently, Emirates has different levels of visa procedures for different countries. Citizens of some countries (US, Canada, EU) can obtain visas upon arrival. Citizens of the BRIC countries have to obtain visas at the embassies.

Today Dubai is the main cruise port in the Middle East. Here are based ships of such large companies as Costa Cruises, Royal Caribbean and AIDA. Dubai quay has the total length of more than 2 kilometers and can receive up to 6 large cruise liners simultaneously. However, today passenger traffic in Dubai is lower than in such large European and US cruise destinations as Miami or Barcelona.

Dubai expects to receive 420 thousand cruise passengers in 2012. It is expected that in the wake of growing demand for cruises in 2013 their number will increase to 450 thousand people. By 2015 Dubai authorities expect to receive 500 thousand cruise passengers and increase the number of received liners up to 125.

Ilya Kalachev

Date: 31/05/2012


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