In 2018, Da Nang welcomed 93 cruise ship arrivals, carrying around 122,338 passengers in total, up 40% in the volume of passengers and an increase of 19 in the number of cruise ship arrivals compared with 2017. By late this year, a total of 160,000 passengers from 110 ship arrivals are likely to have arrived in the city, a 31% rise in the number of passengers, and 17 ship arrivals higher than in 2018.