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6 Big Cruise Updates Which Will Affect You Enormously
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Jan 28, 2025
I discuss the 6 most revealing new cruise updates and news that will affect you as a cruiser enormously. I have drawn out from all the cruise updates and cruise line news the 6 that I think will affect your cruise plans are than any other. I look across the spectrum of cruise lines and regions to focus on the 6 most dramatic and important cruising updates and discuss what I think you should do based on them SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise WATCH THESE POPULAR RECENT VIDEOS: 10 Cabins to Avoid: https://youtu.be/PgTGLma919A European River Cruise Watch-Outs: https://youtu.be/oqhz54wStyk 5 Cruises To Avoid: https://youtu.be/CNiPzK4IRWA Alaska Cruise Need-to-Knows: https://youtu.be/Tn7dpNw5kSI Things Cruise Lines Don’t Want You to Know: https://youtu.be/cs5UKha9ALc Rules Passengers Break Most: https://youtu.be/djZLZ3XV_f0 Things You Can’t Do On A Cruise Any More: https://youtu.be/zas6F4wMD0Q Should You Pay Cruise Gratuities: https://youtu.be/QBYzqxXjEXQ Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 77 cruises at time of making this video.
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk about six of the latest most
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revealing and huge updates in the world
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of cruising that I think are going to
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impact you enormous Lee
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starting with this one for me one of the
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most revealing updates is something that
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all of the heads of the big cruise
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corporations have said and that is that
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they will not start cruising until they
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get it right and not necessarily on the
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dates that are published which are
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largely August the first at the time of
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recording every single CEO has come out
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in the last week or two and made that
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very clear and that makes sense because
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it doesn't make any sense for them to
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start cruising until they are 100% sure
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that there is no outbreak or the
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incident on board because that would
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then absolutely hammer cruising
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completely so for example Richard Fane
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the head of the Royal Caribbean group he
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said we're not saying we are confident
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we are starting on August the 1st we
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won't come back until we are absolutely
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sure we have done everything we can do
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to protect the safety of our guests and
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crew Frank Del Rio who runs the
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Norwegian Cruise Line group says Oceania
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region 7c and of course Norwegian he
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said recently we want to do this right
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and again he stressed that doing it
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right was more important than the dates
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they're being advertised even Arnold
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Donald from the carnival group who had
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very publicized dates of August the
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first start cruising there or stressing
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that date is not set in stone doing it
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right is what are the implications of
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this for you as a cruise it's really
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important if you are booking cruises
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particularly in 2020 based on the
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cruises that are advertised do not
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assume that they are set in stone until
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the cruise lines are confident they've
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got it right they're not going to sell
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of course really importantly about
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getting it right for the cruise lines
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it's they have to have sign-off between
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the Center for Disease Control the CDC
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in the US and themselves and so if you
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are booking cruises bear in mind they
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may be cancelled you may be handing over
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money which we your eventual have to
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claim back in refunds or future cruise
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credit if you are unsure why do you just
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wait until the cruise lines are up and
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running before you book
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the second really significant and
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important update is all of those cruise
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leaders have also stressed that it's not
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going to be one big bang of cruising
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it's going to be in a phased and
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restricted way they're going to bring up
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a number of ships see how it goes adjust
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and then start to bring their fleets
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back into service also important because
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a lot of the ships now have been put in
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cold lay up where they basically down to
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a really basic operating level and it's
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going to take quite a lot of time and
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money to get those back up and running -
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in getting crew back if you look at
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Carnival they have only put eight of
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their 27 ships on schedule for the
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startup of cruising when they hope you
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start cruising so it's going to be a
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slow steady and measured way of starting
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cruising so again when you're booking a
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cruise make sure that you've understood
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are one of those ships and there's
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itineraries definitely going to be part
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of the rollout when cruising start up
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again a third another significant update
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which does have massive implications is
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it also looks very much like cruising is
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going to be very regional and initially
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targeted very much at the local travel
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and that's for all sorts of reasons
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first of all there's quite a few ports
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that have said they're going to be
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closed to cruise ships for a period of
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time so for example Australia has
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announced that they will allow no cruise
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ships and to lease the middle of
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September the Seychelles being a more
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dramatic saying not until 2022 even the
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ground came and in the Caribbean have
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said it's unlikely that they're going to
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open to cruising until quarter three or
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maybe even quarter for Argentina which
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is of course really important for some
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of the South American cruises and once
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the Antarctic season opens up they are
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not allowing in any international
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travelers until at least September some
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of the EU countries still have in place
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14-day quarantines if you fly in and
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were the most recent ones for example
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the UK is just introducing that in June
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and we'll be evaluating that of course
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some of the other countries like Italy
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in Spain I'll talk about lifting that in
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time for summer so there's lots of
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restrictions on where people can cruise
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- and how many international travellers
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can actually come into a country so it's
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very likely that cruises are going to
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focus a lot on the drive to market so
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for example in Florida people can
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actually get two ports really easy and
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to rely on flights as they start up
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again rather cruise lines are also
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talking they might start up in some
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regions like China for example for
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Chinese guests because they are much
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further along in the curve of dealing
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with the whole pandemic we've also seen
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in Norway for example who to Girton are
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reintroducing one of their coastal
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voyages but just for Norwegian
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passengers no international passengers
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no foreign passengers we've seen in the
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United States that two of the big river
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cruising lines American Cruise Lines and
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American Queen steamboat company they're
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both going to be introducing during the
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summer sailings within the rivers of the
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US silver sea have been talking about
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how they're trying to talk to the
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Australian government about including
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silver sea and some cruising within the
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bubble they're talking about creating
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between Australia New Zealand just for
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Australia New Zealand passengers there's
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also been a lot of talk amongst European
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river cruises about them starting out
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particularly focusing on residents who
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within the Schengen area that means they
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can move between European countries as
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the borders start opening very easily
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this could also be big for travelers in
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the UK where there could be a chance of
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focusing on around the UK cruises
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because again you can board UK based
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ships out of Southampton which basically
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calling on all UK port so we've seen a
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lot of evidence that the cruise lines
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are like to focus on the regional ports
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regional areas of strength using
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passengers from that particular country
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initially as they get things going so
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that's really important if you're
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looking at cruising want to get back to
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cruising really quickly and speedily
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focus on the cruises that are really
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close at home to you and particularly
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ones that perhaps don't require you
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crossing borders to get to the cruise a
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fourth update which has been floating
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around by a number of the cruise lines
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is we're likely to see an increase of
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cruises to nowhere now this is easier in
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some regions than it is in others so if
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we take a look at Asia for example
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Genting which is really a big player in
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Asia they have cruise lines like dream
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cruise line and star there she also by
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the way own crystal as well but they're
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talking about introducing cruises to
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nowhere for their Asian customers who
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like to go on short cruises anyway and
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perhaps more drawn to the actual just
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going out on the ship and let's concern
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about the ports and it's going to be
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much easier again just going from port
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see days and back to a port we've also
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seen a lot of the Cruise Lines that
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operate in the Caribbean that have their
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own private islands talking about this
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could be a possibility of having cruises
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to nowhere or cruises to their private
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islands to comply with the law in the US
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which does actually require all ships
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that are not flagged within the US that
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they have to call on a foreign port
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before they can return to the US but
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private islands are counted as foreign
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ports because they're normally part of
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places like the Bahamas for example so
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for example the CEO of the Royal
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Caribbean line mr. Bailey has said that
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he sees for example perfect day at CoCo
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Key as potentially being a key part of
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the way that they can get cruising up so
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it's kind of a cross between cruises to
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nowhere or cruises to private islands so
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again if you're looking at getting back
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into cruising really quickly one of the
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big implications of that a focus on kind
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of cruises to nowhere or again cruises
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which use things like private islands
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for me another revealing update was
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something that's been mentioned by a
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couple of the CEOs and that's about the
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fact that new ships rather than older
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ships are likely to come back quicker
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and that's very interesting because we
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saw again using the example of Royal
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Caribbean where Richard fain speak new
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ships are actually much more efficient
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and leverage costs in a way so for
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example they can actually break even
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with even around about 30 percent
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occupancy whereas if they want to go
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with the older ships they're probably
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going to need over 50 percent occupancy
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so again if you're looking at booking at
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cruising you want to go as soon as
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possible
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focus perhaps on the newer ships in all
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of these fleets another really
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interesting update that has actually
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gone under the radar a lot is the
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reminder that a lot of the rules
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particularly in the US with the CDC the
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Center for Disease Control all of their
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no sell orders and all of their
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requirements they're working on with the
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cruise lines are for ships over 250
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passengers that's really significant cuz
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there are quite a few Cruise Lines that
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operate in the United States that are
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under 250 passengers never actually just
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form to this whole pandemic a specific
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organization
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which is called the u.s. small overnight
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passenger boat operators coalition so a
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bit of a long name but they have quite a
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few cruise lines in there so for example
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they have American cruise lines American
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Queen steamboat company Blount small
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ship adventures Lindblad expeditions
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uncrewed adventures and these cruise
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lines operate a whole mix of cruises
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some which go into places like Alaska
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and they have lobbied really hard to
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actually get up and running really
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really quickly what's really important
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is what the Association is saying is
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they have to make sure that comply much
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more with the FDA regulations than the
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Center for Disease Control obviously
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they're working with them you really
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want to get on a cruise really quickly
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and your base in the US take a look at
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some of those small cruise lines with
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under 250 passengers because they are
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likely to find ways of cruising even
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faster than the big cruise lines there
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is a constant flow of updates and news
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about cruising these are six
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developments that I think have massive
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importance and implication for you as
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cruisers hope you find that how far I
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have loads more videos tips advice and
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