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in this cruise update i am pick what's
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cunard cancels all existing cruises on
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queen elizabeth until the end of 2021
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and they put back the launch of their
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at the same time princess cruises have
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also announced some of their fleet will
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until way into 2021 what's going on what
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i'm gary bembridge this is another of my
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updates it's increasingly looking like
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cruises and cruise lines that were
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to call on multiple countries as part of
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are increasingly cancelling cruises into
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before we take a look at cunard and
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prince's most recent announcements let's
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take a look at where we were
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already we'd already seen a large number
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of cruise lines cancelling or cruising
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until the middle of december and that
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includes piano cruises out of the uk
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seabourn holland america and princess
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cruises we've also seen crystal cruises
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and viking cruises cancelled right
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through to the 31st of december
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qnad have announced that they are
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cancelling their world cruises as i had
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in my last cruise update but they're not
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bringing their ships back
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until march april or may queen elizabeth
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will return to service on march the 25th
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queen mary 2 on april the 18th and queen
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victoria on may the 16th
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but importantly queen elizabeth was due
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to sell for the rest of the year around
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japan and alaska they have cancelled
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and replaced them with cruises out of
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southampton initially
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which are going to be between 3 and 14
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days long they're starting off with
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cruises around the uk
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and irish coast they can have some
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overnight trips to amsterdam
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then start to go a little bit further
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afield into northern europe and
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towards the end of the season run some
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trips in the mediterranean out of
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so what we're seeing is cruisers that
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relied on calling on multiple countries
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have been pushed way way back to late in
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within hours princess cruises announced
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similar thing they also cancelled their
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world voyages the first of those was the
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that was a world cruise sailing from
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north america was going and they have
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segments related to that and all of the
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cruisers in the run-up to the start of
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the other one is pacific princess and
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south america circumnavigation selling
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and again they have cancelled all the
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cruisers in the run-up to that as well
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both cunard and princess are offering a
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or you can get 125 percent future cruise
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it's becoming really really obvious i
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believe that cruisers that are calling
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on multiple countries
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are just finding it impossible to sell
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and cruise lines are saying to cancel
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so as you think about returning to
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cruising one thing you may really want
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to focus on is cruisers which
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call on very few countries only cruise
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we've seen that happen really much in
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europe so we've seen in norway for
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example who de grueten
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and sea dreams sail around norway we've
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seen cruises to nowhere
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setting out of germany for german
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austrian swiss citizens
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out of italy we've seen msc startup
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originally to other countries but
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they're struggling a little bit with
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that now having to postpone the second
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coming to service because they're not
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getting the demand because people are
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about the different testing and
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potential quarantine as they call on
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in french polynesia you've got paul
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starting up because again that falls
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i think the most recent cunard and
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princess news really confirms
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what i think is kind of obvious as we
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disappearing but i think we're
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increasingly seeing as cuneif shown
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that cruisers are involved covering lots
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traveling around the world because of
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the difficulty of airlines
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and connecting flights for cruisers the
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chopping and changing
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nature of the virus in different
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countries and the travel advice
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and just the whole unpredictability of
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that and also the challenge of actually
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then getting people out into port
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and again very importantly no protocol
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has been agreed around the world for the
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return to cruises as we know
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in europe they're testing out some
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protocols with testing and so on and so
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hopefully you found this update helpful
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