{"id":18117,"date":"2013-07-10T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2013-07-10T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T08:00:35","slug":"wednesday-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18117","title":{"rendered":"Mass Market of a Billion Cruisers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undoubtedly, you have heard the joke, or a variation of it. The (full in your favorite football team) made it to the Super Bowl, only to lose on a last-second field goal by…<\/span><\/p>\n

The punch line is: "And a billion people in China didn't even notice."<\/p>\n

Well, until recently a billion people in China didn't care much about going on a cruise, either. That, however, is changing and Princess Cruises<\/a> — for one — is reacting accordingly.<\/p>\n

Five new Princess offices are being opened in China, one of the emerging Asian nations that are starting to get into cruising. As Princess CEO Alan Buckelew put it: <\/p>\n

"The cruise vacation market is in its infancy in China, and…the new offices will support marketing efforts to increase the number of Chinese passengers sourced for our global cruises.”<\/p>\n

It's not that Princess (and other lines) haven't been selling cruises before now. The woman appointed "country director" has been the international sales agent for Princess and Cunard<\/a> for the last eight years. It's just that opening five offices takes a cruise commitment to another level.<\/p>\n

And where are the offices?<\/p>\n

Shanghai<\/a>, Beijing<\/a>, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Chengdu.<\/p>\n

For people in the cruise industry, mentioning the names of those five cities used to mean as much as the names of the Super Bowl<\/a> teams did to a billion Chinese people. Hmm, maybe that will change one day, too…<\/p>\n

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Holland America Ryndam<\/a>
\n\t22 nights<\/span>
\n\tOctober 26, 2013<\/span>
\n\tRome<\/a>, <\/span>Palermo<\/a>, La Goulette, <\/span>Florence<\/a>, <\/span>Monte Carlo<\/a>, <\/span>Marseille<\/a>, <\/span>Barcelona<\/a>, <\/span>Malaga<\/a>, Cadiz, <\/span>Lisbon<\/a>, <\/span>Half Moon Cay<\/a>, <\/span>Tampa<\/a>
\n\tInside: $1,299<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $59<\/strong>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Undoubtedly, you have heard the joke, or a variation of it. The (full in your favorite football team) made it to the Super Bowl, only to lose on a last-second field goal by… The punch line is: "And a billion people in China didn't even notice." Well, until recently a billion people in China didn't… Continue reading Mass Market of a Billion Cruisers?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,15],"tags":[1293,1223,252,912,72,35,1294,23,862,169,506,148],"class_list":["post-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-stories","tag-alan-buckelew","tag-asian-cruises","tag-china","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-cruising-expansion","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-ryndam","tag-princess","tag-super-bowl","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}