Cruise Industry Bailouts, Floating Hospitals, and Travel Agents - CRR 041

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Cruise industry analyst Stewart Chiron weighs in on cruise ships being used as floating hospitals. Travel industry bailouts - should cruise lines be involved? How could the industry shut down impact future cruise ship launches and christenings? How vital are travel agents when it comes to kickstarting the cruise industry again. And will they ever homeport more than one ship in Jacksonville, Florida.

Date: March 22, 2020

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind.
0:05.3	Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.8	My name is Doug Parker, and you're listening to Cruise Radio Rewind.
0:12.7	Stuart She-Ron, Cruise Industry Analyst, is going to be on here in just a couple of moments.
0:17.5	Not too long of a show this weekend, just to kind of catch you up on what's going on.
0:22.2	And one other thing, if it's all right with you, I always want to ask your permission first.
0:27.0	I think we're going to proceed forward and move ahead with the regular show doing cruise ship
0:33.8	reviews every week come Thursday. So the next episode of Cruise Radio will be a ship
0:39.8	review. And we'll keep moving forward until we fight this thing. You know, we've been talking a lot about
0:46.4	COVID-19, coronavirus, and all everything. Not that it's not important, but I also think it's
0:52.0	important that we keep the positivity moving forward,
0:54.8	so we're going to do that as well. Of course, if you do want to stay on top of the cruise news
0:59.8	24-7, there's our website, cruiseradio.net, constantly pumping out articles there. Also, the
1:06.7	cruise radio news feed. It's opposite of this one. All you have to do is type in cruise radio news
1:13.4	where you listen to your favorite podcast. Or if you have an Amazon Alexa, all you have to do is tell
1:18.4	Alexa to enable the cruise radio news flash briefing. And it's usually updated every morning
1:23.6	between 5 and 9 a.m. depending on whenever I get to it. All right, Stuart,
1:27.8	Sheron the cruise guy is here. Hey, Stuart. Hey, Doug. So a lot to catch up on. It was announced
1:31.9	earlier this week that cruise ships could be used as floating hospitals. Play soundbite number one.
1:38.2	One of the things that happened this morning, I spoke with Mickey Erison of Carnival Cruise Lines,
1:43.1	and he is going to make ships available.
1:45.5	So in addition to the big medical ships that you have coming, if we should need ships with lots of rooms,
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