Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 396.

You know, recently, Royal Caribbean has been able to slowly get back to restarting cruises,

but in some unusual places, Singapore, Barbados, and now Israel.

What does this all mean?

This week, I wanted to break down this trend,

coincidence, whatever you want to call it, and talk about where the industry is heading while

most ships still remain shut down. Here we go. With the cruise industry starting to get back

up on its feet, while cruises out of North America and largely Europe, although there are still some European sailings going, are still kind of out there.

There has been a trend that seems to be developing, and that is cruise ships starting really anywhere they possibly can.

And to help me talk about what's happening these days with this kind of, again,

I don't want to, it's a trend or just a large coincidence. We'll get into the grammatical,

correct choice of the word later on is Ashley Cushulik ofcruise.Blog. Ashley, welcome back to

the Royal Green blog podcast. Thanks, Matt. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

It's great to have you back on here.

And, you know, boy, I think if you went back to the week that we talked a couple weeks ago.

I mean, you know, maybe a month or two ago at this point.

And boy, the world has changed a lot since then.

It has.

I think the last time I was on was when we talked about the conditional sale order.

Yes.

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