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COVID-19 is not the first international crisis faced by the cruise industry.

This pandemic has been the largest crisis faced by the cruise industry to date, there are
no precedents, neither in size nor in consequences. There are so many ill crew
members and passengers around the world. At least 65 people died on board a cruise
ship while the entire world was watching the lethal impacts of COVID-19 on the cruise
industry. The ships stopped one by one at the different parts of the world, and after that,
cruise lines dealt with sending crew members and passengers home while the borders
were closed.

The main point here is the Cruise Industry is resilient and will bounce back again.

And they have a timetable plan about;

 Limited national cruising 2020

 Growing International cruising 2021
 A return to normal 2022
 Rapid annual growth resumes 2023

In our current situation all we can say that

With more ships resuming service every month, the cruise restart reached new levels in
the first half of 2022. According to the latest edition of the Cruise Ships in Service
Report by Cruise Industry News, nearly 90 percent of the cruise fleet is now back in
revenue service.
Following this trend, the cruise industry is looking for new initiatives to increase its
clientele while maintaining the current market share, and each company has its own
strategy for coping with new challenges, offering, for instance, multigenerational family
travel, more innovation in the entertainment offerings, new onboard activities, more
specialization in the offer of services, and aggressive pricing models and discounts to
lure potential travelers.

In any case, the industry has to deal with diverse problems and challenges that
adversely affect the demand for cruise vacations alternative and, consequently, its
operating margins and profitability. Therefore, environmental issues and concerns
regarding living and working conditions onboard cruise ships, onboard safety, safety
and health, and many other unresolved subjects claim to be taken in an ethically
responsible way if the cruise industry is to maintain its quality of service in a framework
of sustainability and competitiveness in the next decades.