The cruise industry is taking a holistic approach to planning for COVID-19 safety when sailing is allowed. This entails a 'curb to curb' strategy, from start (time of booking) to finish (returning home).
Finn Partners' Virginia Sheridan, managing partner, North America travel, is a public relations expert with vast cruise industry expertise. Her commentary on what it will take for cruising to survive the coronvirus pandemic is reprinted here, by...
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. secured additional liquidity by taking advantage of debt holidays for certain German-built ships.
As cruise lines face the possibility of having to provide full-fledged intensive care and isolation units on ships to cope with COVID-19, consultant Hugh Darley thinks he has a better idea.
After some weeks of reduced or no activity, apart from design office work organized to limit the number of people present, Chantiers de l'Atlantique is going to resume production.