{"id":23736,"date":"2015-03-30T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23736"},"modified":"2015-03-30T01:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:00:54","slug":"monday-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23736","title":{"rendered":"China Cruising Wave of Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good friends of ours are going to China in a little over a month. This is not something on our bucket list but if that ever happens, we’d probably do what our friends are doing.<\/p>\n

They’re going on a cruise.<\/p>\n

It could be our friends are ahead of their time. The way things are going in the cruise industry, when you gaze over the horizon it’s possible there will one day be more cruise ships in Asia than in North America.<\/p>\n

Impossible?<\/p>\n

Think again.<\/p>\n

Unless it’s just a trend that will runs it’s course (unlikely), the mini-exodus of cruise ships to the other side of the world is likely to continue. Consider these few facts…<\/p>\n

• Presently five Royal Caribbean<\/a> ships (yes, five!) are scheduled to have home ports in \"Quantum\"<\/a>China next year — Mariner of the Seas<\/a>, Voyager of the Seas<\/a>, Legend of the Seas<\/a> and two of the newest ships, Quantum of the Seas<\/a> (leaving in May) and Ovation of the Seas (2016). The new ships will be permanently based in Shanghai<\/a> and Tianjin<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

• A new cruise terminal is in the planning stage for Krabi, a little-known city and the fourth most visited place in Thailand.<\/p>\n

• South Korea this month passed two laws related to cruising, one of them to allow foreign casinos to operate on ships.<\/p>\n

• Japan is now allowing Chinese tourists to visit without a visa, providing they are traveling on specific cruise ships (including three from Costa Cruises<\/a> and Mariner of the Seas) approved by the Japanese minister of justice.<\/p>\n

• According to a recent study, there is the potential for 83 million cruise passengers from China alone. To give this some perspective, last year the number of cruise passengers on ships world-wide — according to another study — was just over 20 million.<\/p>\n

It seems people in China are discovering what many of us discovered long ago, that cruising is a great way to vacation, and the growth of the Chinese economy is allowing them to experience it. Since there are millions more Chinese than North Americans, get ready for the shift of ships.<\/p>\n

And maybe a new bucket list.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: Disney jolly over England<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Carnival Imagination<\/a>
\n\t4 nights
\n\tApril 26, 2015
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Catalina Island<\/a>, Ensenada<\/a> 
\n\tInside: $199
\n\tCost per day: $49<\/strong>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good friends of ours are going to China in a little over a month. This is not something on our bucket list but if that ever happens, we’d probably do what our friends are doing. They’re going on a cruise. It could be our friends are ahead of their time. The way things are going… Continue reading China Cruising Wave of Future<\/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":[16,32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[154,681,252,251,57,912,72,1482,819,1641,927,1306,35,876,649,1730,1037,26,27,1186,33,1199],"class_list":["post-23736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-imagination","tag-china","tag-china-cruises","tag-costa-cruise","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-demographics","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-numbers","tag-cruise-passengers","tag-cruise-surveys","tag-cruises","tag-legend-of-the-seas","tag-mariner-of-the-seas","tag-ovation-of-the-seas","tag-pacific-coast-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-voyager-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23736","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=23736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}