622 Is The Cruise Industry Getting a Fair Shake?
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is the cruise industry getting a fair shake by media outlets? We discuss a land-side outbreak that received minimal coverage while the cruise industry continues to get hammered.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- Carnival Cruise Line cancels more cruises in 2021
- Cruise ships are starting to make their way back to the west coast
- Viking Cruises announces the godmother of an upcoming ship
- A 55-year-old ship is getting scrapped
- Carnival earn a few more travel awards in 2020
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| 0:17.6 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios for the first episode of 2021. |
| 0:23.8 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:26.9 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:27.9 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:28.8 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:31.8 | First one of the new year. |
| 0:33.8 | Absolutely. |
| 0:34.7 | So here we are. |
| 0:35.7 | More cancellations happened this week, among other things. |
| 0:39.6 | Sherry Laskin is here to get us all caught up with Cruisemaven.com in just a moment. Also, |
| 0:43.8 | staff writer Richard Sims coming in to weigh in on an article about an outbreak that a Costco saw, |
| 0:50.5 | but got no coverage. If that was a cruise ship, though, it would be much, much different. |
| 0:54.6 | Richard's stopping by here in just a little bit as well. |
| 0:57.2 | Sherry Laskin is here with cruise news. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, Sherry. |
| 0:59.8 | Hello, Doug. |
| 1:00.7 | The axe dropped today for more cruises. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, so Carnival made yet another round of cancellations this week. |
| 1:08.0 | They've extended the general cancellation period for another month. |
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