About 3.8 million cruise ship passengers visit Mexico annually. Three-fourths of them disembark at ports along the Gulf coast. But there are about a dozen towns along the Mexican Riviera that are also extremely popular ports-of-call. The most active of these is Cabo San Lucas. In 2012 it welcomed about 400,000 people from 160 ships. This is the Carnival Splendor owned by the world’s largest cruise line. The Carnival company generated nearly $16 billion in 2014.
