A Glimpse Into the Future of Cruising
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Sheri from CruiseTipsTV
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🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Today, we’re talking about one cruise line’s return to service, and how it may be a glimpse into the future of cruise travel. In an information packed press conference held on August 3, 2020, MSC Cruises CEO, Gianni Onorato announced they plan to resume cruises in the Mediterranean as early as August 15, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast episode number 77. |
| 0:05.5 | Today we're talking about one cruise lines return to service and how it may be a glimpse into the future of cruise travel. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm your host Sherry and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel the world |
| 0:27.9 | creating cruise videos and vlogs. |
| 0:31.0 | In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every cruise your |
| 0:36.8 | dream cruise. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh, I'm excited about having some good news. |
| 0:42.6 | There's some good news. |
| 0:43.8 | In fact, today, just this morning, a major cruise line announced their return to cruising |
| 0:49.7 | in just, gosh, less than a week at this point. |
| 0:54.1 | So MSC cruises has made their big announcement that they are returning to just, gosh, less than a week at this point. |
| 0:58.7 | So MSC cruises has made their big announcement that they are returning two ships to the Mediterranean. |
| 1:01.3 | Very, very soon. |
| 1:02.7 | It's pretty cool. |
| 1:03.4 | There's actually, yeah, the Grandiosa and the MSC Magnifica are resuming service on August 16th |
| 1:10.0 | and August 29, respectively. So Grandiosa on the 16th, Magnifica, our resuming service on August 16th and August 29, respectively. So Grandiosa on the 16th, |
| 1:14.5 | Magnifica on the 29th. And it's just a really slow, phased restart of operations over in the Mediterranean. |
| 1:21.9 | But it's a big deal because I think a lot of us thought there would be absolutely no cruises |
| 1:26.1 | in the summer. But this is not open to |
| 1:28.9 | Americans. We've got to get that out there right away. You have to be a resident of one of the Schengen |
| 1:33.2 | countries, which we'll talk about in a little bit here, in order to get on one of those cruises. |
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