Despite a drop in the number of cruise ships expected to visit Dunedin in the 2013-14 season, local tourist operators have been told to expect a 6.2% rise in passenger numbers.
As the last cruise ship of the summer season sailed out of Otago Harbour yesterday, Dunedin began to measure the boost the ships and their passengers brought to the city's economy.
The Dunedin cruise ship season is winding down and the last multi-ship visit was yesterday.
The cruise ship Oosterdam is due to arrive in Port Chalmers this morning.
Passengers on all-inclusive cruises gain nearly half a kilogram a day on holiday, a survey shows.
It was ''love at first sight'' for Dutch couple Frans and Tessa Visser, who sailed into Dunedin yesterday aboard their very own love boat, Costa neoRomantica.
A record number of cancellations so early in the cruise ship season has left Dunedin businesses counting the cost.
Dunedin's tourism sector coped well with the biggest cruise ship to visit New Zealand, when Voyager of the Seas docked at Port Chalmers on Saturday.
Dawn Princess enters Otago Harbour, signalling the start of the record-breaking 2012-13 cruise ship season.
The cancellation of Dunedin's first cruise ship of the season has left a tourism operator "many tens of thousands of dollars" out of pocket.
Volunteers greeting passengers and crew from cruise ships field some interesting questions.
Larger cruise ships will bring a record 230,000 passengers and crew into Dunedin this season.
More than 200 tourism providers are participating in a new accreditation programme, designed to set the standard for service offered to cruise ship passengers in Dunedin.
Dunedin tourism operators need to prepare for higher numbers of "budget Australian" visitors as the cruise-ship market changes, a group was told yesterday.
New Zealand is in the middle of a cruising boom and is one of the most exciting markets in the world, the head of Australia's largest cruise liner company says.
The only cruise ship passengers who might be sorry they are visiting Dunedin this weekend are shopaholics, Dunedin Visitor Centre manager Louise van de Vlierd says.
You are a passenger on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship and you have already done New York, San Francisco, Honolulu and Auckland. Now what would it take to persuade you to disembark at the log wharf at Port Chalmers, in the rain?
Dunedin piper Bill Swift welcomes Celebrity Century passengers James and Patricia Russell (at left) to Dunedin yesterday at Beach St wharf.
More than 7000 people, the equivalent of about 20 Boeing 747-400 passenger manifests, arrived in Dunedin on three cruise ships yesterday morning.
Passengers take in the views as the C. Columbus eases up Otago Harbour yesterday morning. The ship, which carries 420 passengers and 190 crew, is on its second visit to Dunedin.
