Marinas provide essential on-water and off-water boat storage and associated infrastructure and amenities as well as public access to waterways across the land/water interface. They create employment, economic activity and support tourism to the communities surrounding their location and contribute to the aesthetic and social fabric of their communities. They are most often developed and operated with private investment and require professional management of the complex interface between public access, operational health and safety, environmental control, industrial activities, tourism and community activities.

The ICOMIA Recreational Boating Industry Statistics Book is the foremost annual tool the industry has to measure international activity in the recreational boating industry.

This is the 2017 edition, for more recent data, purchase the 2018 edition. You can view sample pages in the ICOMIA library. 


ICOMIA Marine Industry Association Members receive a 50% discount. Members of the following MIAs should contact their organisation to obtain a complimentary copy: 
ACOBAR 
AMIA 
British Marine 
BVWW 
DENTUR 
FINNBOAT 
HISWA 
JMIA 
NMMA and NMMA Canada 
Skib & Bad 
Sweboat 
UCINA 

Please get in contact with your MIA to enquire about them purchasing the distribution rights. 


ICOMIA’s Recreational Boating Industry Statistics offer a unique insight into the worldwide recreational boating industry. Content includes: 


• 2018 global data snapshot 
• Detailed national reports on the industry’s largest market countries 
• Global summaries of key product segments from 27 countries 
• Export/import data for international trade in boats from 43 countries 
• Marine engine statistics from ICOMIA’s Marine Engine Committee (IMEC) 
• International Boat Show statistics (courtesy of the International Federation of Boat Show Organizers) 
• The 2018 Superyacht Annual Report (courtesy of The Superyacht Group) 
• Industry articles selected by IBI 

This purchase also includes raw-data Excel spreadsheets, to assist those carrying out more detailed research. 

The International Council of Marine Industry Associations' (ICOMIA) Small Craft Standards Bulletin provides industry stakeholders early notification on changes to existing standards and modifications to production methods; as developed and maintained by the ISO (International Organization for Standards) Technical Committee for Small Craft Standards (TC 188). The ICOMIA Small Craft Standards Bulletin is issued biannually and available to download, for free.

Marinas are most often developed and operated with private investment and require professional management of the complex interface between public access, operational health and safety, environmental control, industrial activities, tourism and community activities. Essential to their long-term viability and consequential delivery of high-quality public benefits is an investment framework that provides investment certainty through both security of tenure and affordable seabed and land rents within the range of Sustainable Occupancy Cost. Unsustainably high occupancy costs typically lead to poorly maintained, operated or abandoned facilities delivering poor community outcomes. The financial criteria for public land tendered for marina development by way of lease should be based on a clear understanding of the Sustainable Occupancy Cost for a given marina development taking into account the various uses on the site and the length and certainty of lease tenure as determined by suitably qualified professionals. This can be then translated to a lease fee per surface unit for the land and water area covered, if required, to enable a suitable analysis of tenders