120,396 cruise passengers visit Tangier

Some 120,396 cruise passengers have visited the city of Tangier since the beginning of the year until 21 December, against 104,000 at the end of 2014, affirmed, on Tuesday, the tourism delegate in Tangier, Saïd Abbassi.In a statement to MAP, Saïd Abassi specified that the Tangier city port recorded during this period the docking of 85 cruise ships, noting that the port has succeeded in welcoming large cruise liners of more than 3,000 passengers.The official thus underlined that the 3rd largest cruise liner in the world "Norwegian Cruise Line" made a stopover, on Monday at the Tangier city port, with 5,800 people on board, including 4,100 cruise passengers of different nationalities, notably Americans, Germans, Spaniards, Chinese, Italians and Japanese, and 1,700 crew members, who carried out guided tours in the cities of Chefchaouen, Tetouan, Asilah and Tangier.They were also invited to…