In the first quarter of 2026, Royal Caribbean Cruises Recorded record financial results for this time of year as well as the new absolute record of passengers embarked on the ships of the fleet of the American cruise group. They are In fact, there were 2.5 million guests on board the ships in the first quarter of 2026, with an increase of +12.0% over the first quarter last year.

In the January-March period of 2026, revenues amounted to 4.45 billion dollars (+11.3%), with record figures for this period of both the revenues generated by the sale of cruises and those produced by sales on board ships that were found to be equal to 3.02 billion (+10.1%) and 1.43 billion respectively (+14,0%). Production costs, amounting to 2.25 billion, marked an increase of +8.1%. Ebitda is 1.70 billion (+21.1%), operating profit of 1.16 billion (+23.0%) and net income of $950 million (+29.1%).

Royal Caribbean has announced that currently the level of the Demand continues to be high, with bookings in the current month that are higher than those of April 2025 and that have record prices. The US group specified that bookings for scheduled cruises in the Mediterranean, which had started the year with strong growth, suffered a slowdown as a result of recent geopolitical developments, partly due to increase in the cost of air travel, the reduction in Airline and Disruption Capacity of flights. Royal Caribbean has specified that, however, in the last few years Bookings for cruises in this region have shown a recovery despite limited availability of the capacity still available. The American company has specified that these factors will mainly affect the results for the second and third quarters of the year, when these Cruises account for a significant share of bookings. To this added to this is the effect of a slowdown in bookings for the cruises on the west coast of Mexico that also undergo the impact of geopolitical developments specific to this region.