Inbound cruise passenger arrivals in Rio de Janeiro 2010-2019
The volume of inbound tourism by maritime transport in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro grew steadily between 2016 and 2019, after dropping by roughly 50 percent in 2016 over the previous year. In 2019, the number of cruise passenger arrivals at Rio's ports reached approximately 53.8 thousand. In the first two years of the 2010s, however, the affluence of this type of tourism in the Brazilian state was higher.