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Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, Virgin Voyages, CEO and president, Tom McAlpin drops by. Of course, Scarlet Lady is home in Port Miami now, gearing up for her first revenue cruise on October 6th. So we're going to check in with Tom from the ship and see what's happening.

Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here to get us caught up on this week's cruise news. And we'll also drop in with Cherry Griffiths from Cruise Tips TV and get her first impressions of Scarlet Lady. Don't forget Cruise Radio News. It's the three things you need to know every single morning. Catch it at Cruise Radio News.

It's just opposite of this or on the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. All right, let's get to the

cruise news with staff writer Richard Sims. Hey, buddy. Hey, Doug. So the annual state of the cruise industry

happened on Tuesday. Any big takeaways this year? Well, you know, I think the big takeaway is that cruising is back.

That's kind of what a lot of the focus was on and looking toward the future, and which is really just saying, and more ships will be coming back.

Probably the biggest takeaway out of it was a sense that the whole cruise industry was sort of in

this together from the time that shut down started. You know, we tend to think of the various

cruise lines, especially, you know, like Norwegian and Carnival and Royal Caribbean, as being

competitors. And certainly they are. There's no two ways about that. But they also really sort of

pulled their resources, worked together, shared information in order to get cruising back as soon as

possible, because they knew how important it was. They knew that, you know, for example,

if one of them developed some technology that was going to make it easier for all of them to come back, that was good for all of them.

An outbreak on one ship is going to be bad for all of the industry.

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