The Port of Galveston held onto its title as the country's fourth-busiest cruise terminal and is the fastest-growing cruise port in the United States.

Embarkations from Galveston increased 35 percent to 869,923 passengers in 2016, up from 642,000 in 2014, according to the Cruise Lines International Association's 2016 Economic Impact Analysis released Wednesday.

Galveston's jump is partly due to the closure of the Bayport Cruise Terminal in Pasadena, according to the report. The terminal waved goodbye to its last cruise ship last year and the Port of Houston no longer serves cruise lines.

At HoustonChronicle.com: With cruise ships gone, Port of Houston decides to move on at Bayport

Some 1.28 million passengers and crew visited Texas during 2016, up 19 percent from 1.07 million in 2014. This represents 5.3 percent of all passenger and crew visits in the U.S.

With $1.42 billion in direct spending and 25,166 jobs paying $1.62 billion in income, Texas accounted for 6.6 percent of direct expenditures generated by the cruise industry in the United States, 6.5 percent of the industry's total employment impact and 7.9 percent of the income impact.

At HoustonChronicle.com: Galveston cruise terminal continues to expand as passenger lists grow

In the U.S. overall, cruise lines, their passengers and crew spent a record $21.69 billion in 2016, up 15 percent since 2011 and representing a new peak in U.S. cruise industry expenditures.

Total contributions of the global cruise industry to the U.S. economy hit a record $47.76 billion in 2016, up 3.6 percent from 2014. This includes generating 389,432 U.S. jobs paying more than $20.5 billion in wages and salaries.

The country's busiest ports were in Florida: Miami with 2.6 million embarkations, Port Canaveral with 2.1 million and Port Everglades with 1.8 million.