651 Cruise Industry Restart with Retired Executive + News
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
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šļø 29 July 2021
ā±ļø 52 minutes
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Summary
We talk with former cruise line executive Art Sbarsky about the cruising industry restart and talk shop about moves the cruise lines are doing to earn extra revenue.Ā
Richard Simms has cruise news:
- It's been a long 16 months but a lot of ships are back into service
- The UK greenlights international cruisesĀ
- The CDC and Florida lawsuit drags on ā has it ended yet?
- Norwegian has finally returned to sailingĀ
- DisneyĀ has announced new testing protocolsĀ
- Bimini island gets first Carnival ship callĀ
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
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| 0:10.6 | Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:18.9 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. We have staff writer Richard Sims standing by with Cruise News this week. And also Mr. Art Sabarski. We normally have an annual chat with Art about the state of the cruise industry. Last year, we skipped that because of obvious reasons. But we had a chance to catch up with Art on Celebrity Edge a couple of |
| 0:38.0 | weeks ago, so we'll get our conversation in just a little bit. But first, Cruise Radio News, |
| 0:43.4 | the daily three things you need to know found at the Cruise Radio News podcast opposite of this |
| 0:48.4 | or on the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. All right, staff writer Richard Sims is here with news. Hello, |
| 0:54.0 | Richard. Hey, Richard. |
| 0:54.8 | Hey, Doug. It's been 16 long months, but a lot of ships are now back into service. |
| 0:59.9 | You know, basically at this point, every line is either sailing or about to sail. Holland, |
| 1:04.9 | America headed to Alaska on Saturday the very next day. Princess Cruises took their turn up to Alaska. |
| 1:13.3 | Norwegian isn't sailing out of the U.S. yet, but the Jade, which is, as everybody who knows me |
| 1:19.0 | knows, the sister to my very favorite ship, the gem, it sailed out of Greece, and |
| 1:24.5 | Norwegian will start sailing out of the U.S. later this year, I believe in September. |
| 1:28.9 | Bahamas Cruise Line is sailing. So basically pretty much everyone's up and running. This is right now |
| 1:35.4 | more ships than we have seen sailing in, you know, 16, 18 months, which is an amazing, amazing thing. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, it looks like Norwegian is going to have their first ship. I think August 7th, from Seattle with Encore up to Alaska. Oh, right. I forgot about them sailing to Alaska. You're right. So the CDC in Florida, this lawsuit's been going since around April or so. Has it ended yet? And what's the latest? I don't think it's ever going to end, honestly. You know, |
| 2:01.1 | you hear stories about how litigation takes years and years and things get caught up in, |
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