Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 4005.

The cruise industry is busy.

I mean, we talk about Royal Caribbean a lot on here, obviously, but there's a big, beautiful world out there of cruising.

And today, we're going to talk about what's happening in the world of cruising these days outside of Royal Caribbean.

Here we go.

You know, there's always a lot of stuff happening in the cruise industry.

And obviously, this podcast, we mostly focus on what's happening with Royal Caribbean.

And by mostly, I mean only.

But this week, I thought it might be a good opportunity to take a

wider look at what's happening in the cruise industry because there's been a lot happening.

And I'm not just talking about what's happening with the CDC and opening things up here in the

U.S. The cruise industry has been moving and shaking and doing a lot of things despite a substantial shutdown and a lot of things happening here.

And to help me break things down is my very good friend,

Ashley Cushulik from cruise. blog.

Ashley, welcome back to the podcast.

Thanks, Matt.

Happy to be here.

Absolutely.

And it's just, I think this has been the mantra throughout the entire shutdown.

I can't believe how much news there is

despite there not being many, if at all, cruise ships sailing. Right. Yep. It seems like there's

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