Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly looking to the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgepurgan.

This is episode number 37.

It doesn't take much to convince fans of cruising to book another Royal Caribbean cruise,

so Royal Caribbean offers incentives to everyone to book another cruise with certain benefits by doing so.

These booking incentives can help reduce the cost of the crews overall or make booking

another cruise a little easier to swallow financially.

So let's look at what booking incentives are, which ones are better than others, and which

ones I like to use as well.

And naturally, we're going to have your listener feedback to share as well, so here we go.

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Today, we're talking about booking incentives. So what are booking intensives? Well, Royal Caribbean obviously offers cruises throughout

the year, right? Different ships, different itineraries, all around the world. The thing is,

they want to increase bookings on certain cruises, certain itineraries, certain dates, and this can

vary. Sometimes it's a specific week. Sometimes it's months at a time. It doesn't matter.

The bottom line is they want to spur sales. They want to get to people to buy into cruises, right?

And, you know, we can all talk about how great rural Caribbean is and all that stuff, which is true.

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