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In my latest cruise news update, I discuss the 6 recent big cruising news updates and stories and look at what they mean for us as cruise passengers and cruising fans.
The cruise updates include the good news that Caribbean cruises are resuming if you want to, the impact a new ban will have on Carnival resuming cruises out of USA ports, what the cruise lines have confirmed about 2021 fares and why Covid cases on European cruises right now are not all bad news.
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there are six big breaking cruise news
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items and stories
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that you need to know about i'm gary
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bembridge and this is another of my tips
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for travellers cruise updates
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where i unpick the biggest cruising news
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and discuss what it means for you
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as a cruiser let's start with some good
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positive cruise news about caribbean
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cruising
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sea dream yacht club's sea dream 1
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called into portsmouth england on the
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19th of october to pick up
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19 guests before setting sail for
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barbados
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the ship had previously embarked
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passengers in both oslo
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and rotterdam sea dream one will
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home base in barbados for the winter
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and from november the 7th be sailing six
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and eight night
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caribbean cruises sailing and calling on
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saint vincent and the grenadines and the
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beautiful island
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of grenada so if you want to cruise in
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the caribbean
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this year then you have one option
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for sure sea dream will be the first
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cruise line
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definitely selling in the caribbean
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they're doing this
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by avoiding starting up out of usa ports
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although as their ships or yachts as
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they like to call them
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only carry 112 passengers they don't
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actually fall
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under the u.s no sale ban that ban
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only applies to ships carrying over 250
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guests
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so they could sell out of the us in
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theory
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sea dreams cruises are open for
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international travelers
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who have to be able to provide proof of
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a negative
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covert 19 test on arrival into barbados
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which has to be performed at least 72
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hours
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before arrival and they'll then undergo
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a further peer
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side test before actually boarding the
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ship
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guests also will only be able to go on
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cruise line excursions
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in those ports so any passenger wanting
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to go ashore will be allowed to do so
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only in organized groups by sea dream to
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beach and land
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sites pre-agreed by the islands now sea
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dream one was the very first cruise ship
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to take passengers on board in the uk
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since
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the march shut down the uk government
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currently advises against any form of
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ocean cruise travel which means any uk
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guests
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joining the ship would have to have
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taken out very special travel insurance
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from a specialist insurer willing to
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cover travelers
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cruising against government advice
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it's always important to remember that
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normal insurance policies are invalid
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if you travel against your government's
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advice
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the cruise vloggers ben and david
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they're actually on the ship's
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transatlantic crossing and no doubt will
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be posting
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updates on their social media accounts
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if you want to follow those
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one of the most controversial
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developments in
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recent days is an order from the u.s
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district judge
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for the southern district of california
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and this is that carnival corporation
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has to give 60 days notice to the court
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before their ships can re-enter
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u.s waters now carnival removed all
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their ships
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from the united states waters not long
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after the cdc
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no sell order and many of them are off
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the coast
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of the bahamas just waiting to return to
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start
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selling out of u.s ports like miami fort
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lauderdale
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now this ruling could really impact when
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they could resume
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cruising when the no sale order is
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eventually lifted
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as it would take at least two months
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before they could head back to usa ports
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so this affects all their lines
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including carnival
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princess honda america and seabourn
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now the reason for the 60-day notice was
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part of a ruling against
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carnival corporation for ongoing cases
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for
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breaking environmental regulations there
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are some of these which actually pleaded
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guilty to date right back to 2017 and
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2019.
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the judge wants much more reassurance
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that equipment and measures
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have been put in place on each of the
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ships and hence the notice
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to enable checks to take place as ships
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return to u.s
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waters now carnival are working to try
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and get the order down from 60
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days to just two weeks notice so we need
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to watch out
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how this plays out over the coming weeks
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and months as it could have a big impact
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on timing of carnival corporations lines
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returned to service now regular
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followers of my channel
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and updates will know that i was due to
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go to antarctica on a punant
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expedition ship in november and that
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they cancelled the season initially up
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to
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christmas 2020. now the antarctica
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season runs normally from end october
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to early march most of the other players
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had started to cancel to then
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as well as up till christmas it now
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looks
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like the antarctica season for 2020 2021
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will not run at all one of the
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biggest players who de gruten has been
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the very first to cancel the entire
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season
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with the rest of lions expected to
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follow pretty shortly now this
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is not unexpected as to join the cruises
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you fly through either chile
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or argentina and most of the
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international flights there are still
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banned and they're not really looking at
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opening anytime soon so moving ships
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all the way down to antarctica does not
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make sense
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now in related news utigrutan also
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announced that they have split their
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business
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into two so there's now a dedicated
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expedition company
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so they focus on areas like the arctic
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antarctica
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greenland british isles and south
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america
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then there's the hutu grit in norway
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which runs the very traditional
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norway coastal voyages now they've been
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running these since
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1893 they run all year round between
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bergen right down in the south
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and kokenas which is right up in the
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north in the russian border
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now you may have seen some headlines
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about covert cases
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in recent days on some of the cruises
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running in europe
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most noticeably about carnival cruise
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corporation's cost of cruises now i want
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to
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unpick and explain what happened and
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actually
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why it is not all bad news
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costa dia di mar was running a series of
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charters for
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a french tour company carrying only
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french
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passengers the first sailing had 600
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guests now it's important to remember
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that's on a ship
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that can carry 4 900 passengers it's out
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of genoa on a 40 night itinerary
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visiting
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italian and greek ports now the italian
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and
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costa cruise protocols require that all
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guests
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are tested at the end of each cruise
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before they return
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to italy seven asymptomatic cases
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were identified in that testing now
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those guests they were isolated
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and then they were disembarked in
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palermo in an agreement with the italian
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authorities
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contact tracing on the ship then took
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place now this is aided by the use of a
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wearable medallion
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that tracks which guests have spent over
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50 minutes in close contact with other
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guests
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so they can easily identify who's at
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risk now all the crew were then tested
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no other cases were identified on that
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sailing now this i think
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shows how really strict protocols which
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include testing
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along with sort of ongoing physical
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distancing and tracking on board
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can actually identify and lead to only
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isolating those
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people affected now in the run-up to the
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shutdown any case
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on a ship would have sent the entire
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ship into lockdown
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or guests being quarantined for extended
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periods of time
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and what we're seeing now is these new
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protocols
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are showing great promise in that there
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could be less draconian
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but still effective ways to manage
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outbreaks and this could be
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really workable so i think there's not
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all bad news they caught it fast and
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they're able to deal it in a more
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limited way i received many many
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comments and
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questions about 2021 cruise fares all
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focused
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on if they're going to be significantly
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higher and should
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you book now the concern of course is
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that the inability to cruise for almost
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a year
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will lead to huge demand and push fares
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up
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now i have always been of the view that
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this will not be the case and if you
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watch my videos you will know that
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there are a significant number of people
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that would have cruised that will not
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want to any longer
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and demand will be lower because the new
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protocols will also mean that many many
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people
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will hold back cruising until returns
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much more to the way it was previously
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and i see
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a lot of comments around that now this
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was confirmed
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this week as the cruise corporation
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started updating their financial
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performance which they have to do
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by law at certain periods royal
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caribbean for example
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they advised the bookings are running
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below
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covert 19 levels and pricing for 2021
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is and i'm going to quote here pricing
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for 2021 bookings is relatively flat
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year over year 2021 cruise fares look to
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be
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at best around the level they were and
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once cruising openings
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i stick by my prediction that you will
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find
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great deals and lower fares
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the 2020 european river cruising season
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has effectively
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been called off while a few lines
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catering for european guests so like
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across
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europe for example have been selling the
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major lines that are mostly filled
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by u.s uk and australian guests have
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confirmed
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no river cruises for 2020. the latest to
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council is
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amma waterways joining uniworld cruises
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crystal cruises
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scenic emerald waterways and viking
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cruises
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that will sail no ships in europe in
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2020
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amber waterways did run some limited
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charters on the
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amma christina ship for german guests
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so those are the six biggest news
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stories breaking that i felt you need to
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know about and what i think they mean
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for
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us as cruise lovers i have loads more
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