Young people are showing an increasing interest in their cruise holiday – often motivated by 'kidfluencer' content – which is driving the buying decisions of their families.
It was a tale of two cruise lines as the entertainment heads from Virgin Voyages and Holland America Line came together to discuss the differences, but also some similarities, during a Seatrade Cruise Global panel Wednesday.
Destinations in Asia must band together to drive the region’s cruise growth was the message from the ‘Emerging Markets Panel’ at Seatrade Cruise Global Wednesday.
Cruise tourism is rebounding faster than international tourism, with the global passenger count forecast to reach 106% of 2019 levels in 2023, or 31.5m, according to Cruise Lines International Association.
There's such an obsession with getting to net zero that the cruise industry doesn't talk enough about its purpose — providing great vacations, Frank Del Rio said in a Seatrade keynote panel dominated by decarbonization.
Cruise lines have a math headache. It's a complicated formula called the Carbon Intensity Indicator put forth by the International Maritime Organization that is expected to track the shipping industry's environmental impact as soon as 2026.
It seems simple enough. A cruise ship wants to call a port home, get some people off and get some others on board. The choreography of those movements, though, changes with each location so the cruise lines and the ports that host them juggle a...