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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We dropped in on the conference with the President of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald, to discuss their new Ocean Medallion they are launching on Princess Cruises. This wearable device is designed to enhance your cruise experience.

Later in the show, we get a review of Princess Cruises' Crown Princess on a west coast sailing. Scott gives us a bow to stern review of his sailing to the Mexican Riveria.

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0:14.6	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:18.8	This is Cruise Radio.
0:25.9	Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:30.7	Coming up a little later on in the show, we'll get a review of Princess Cruises Crown Princess.
0:36.8	A couple of weeks ago, Carnival Corporation CEO Arnold Donald at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, released this new technology
0:38.7	that Carnival Corporation is rolling out. It's going to be first debuting with Princess
0:42.9	Cruises later on this year. I had a chance to listen in to the call on this new technology
0:48.4	and then had a chance to participate in a Q&A session, so let's listen to some of those soundbites
0:53.1	real quick. Here at CES, we unveiled Ocean Medallion, a first-of-its-kind wearable device,
0:59.8	capable of transforming cruise vacations by delivering a highly personalized and elevated level
1:05.5	of guest experience. You can wear the Ocean Medallion as an accessory or simply
1:10.5	keep it in your pocket.
1:11.6	And you don't need to worry about charging it or turning it on or even learning how to use it.
1:16.6	Its simplicity is a big part of what makes it so special.
1:20.6	It said that great things come in small packages and that is a claim that the ocean medallion can absolutely live up to. Now, we're excited to begin rolling out our Ocean Medallion Class experience,
1:31.3	powered by our proprietary and patent-pending guest experience platform with Princess Cruises,
1:37.3	the company led by Jan Swartz, who chose to be the first of our 10 brands to introduce OSHA Medallion to her guest.
1:46.2	The Ocean Medallion class debuts this November on Princess Cruises-Snewish ship, Regal Princess.
1:51.9	So that's the background on the medallion.
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