{"id":5671,"date":"2020-04-02T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2020-04-02T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:32:16","slug":"cruise-bookings-are-on-the-rise-for-2021-despite-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/weben\/cruise-bookings-are-on-the-rise-for-2021-despite-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise bookings are on the rise for 2021 despite coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>It seems travelers are prepared to batten down the hatches and sail close to the wind, as cruise bookings for 2021 are on the rise. Analysts at UBS say booking volume for 2021 cruises has \u201cgone up 9 percent in the last 30 days versus the same time last year,\u201d despite many cruise ships currently quarantined amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes people applying their future cruise credits from sailings that were cancelled this year, but still shows a surprising resilience in desire to book a cruise,\u201d UBS equity analysts wrote in a March 31 report on cruise lines.<\/p>\n<p>Voyages to Asia and Alaska are seeing the highest numbers, according to the report. The unlikely plot twist comes as numerous ships have been quarantined over the last couple of months as COVID-19 rapidly spread. Banished to the seas, cruises are without ports, unwanted and forgotten, meandering aimlessly along the coasts looking for someone, anyone, to take them in.<\/p>\n<p>One such ship, Holland America\u2019s Zaandam, which is scheduled to arrive in Florida this week with more than 200 sick passengers, has already been denied port in Chile, Peru and Argentina. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, meanwhile, told Fox News on Monday that his state \u201ccannot afford to have people who are not even Floridians dumped into South Florida using up those valuable resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Zaandam\u2019s sister ship, the Rotterdam, picked up passengers without symptoms to separate the guests, NBC reports. Now, both boats are headed for Florida, still stuck in limbo, hoping for a place to park. There are more than 300 Americans on board the ships and more than 1,200 total people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started getting turned away by everyone,\u201d Emily Spindler Brazell, a passenger from Tappahannock, Va., who was on the Zaandam but was later transferred to the Rotterdam, told NBC. \u201cThe world was closing its doors as we sat there waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/01\/cruise-bookings-are-on-the-rise-for-2021-despite-coronavirus\/\">NY POST<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems travelers are prepared to batten down the hatches and sail close to the wind, as cruise bookings for 2021 are on the rise&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[23,382],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weben","tag-coronavirus","tag-cruise","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}