Cruise tourism has become an important segment of the tourist industry. It’s constantly growing and proportionately improves. We are building new ships, seeking new destinations, reducing the cost of travel while increasing the number of passengers. Cruising tourism has its advantages but also some disadvantages that determine its further development. Of course the development of this form of tourism in large part has a country. To realize what are direct effects of the consumption in the area, we had to see what it offers in the market of cruise tourism (cruise ships, excursions, offers on board, ports of call), and that it demands (structure of passengers). It was also important to know which shipping companies rule on the market and in which significant market is our destination port of Rijeka located. In the port of Rijeka in 2015., the survey was conducted, we talked with passengers who visited the port of Rijeka as a new cruising destination. Through research, we found out the age of passengers, nationality, how satisfied they were with the destination and how much money they spend and on what. It is vital that the port of Rijeka develops as a cruising destination, but it is very important that this takes place in accordance with the capacity of destinations to avoid ruining environmental factors.