{"id":310,"date":"2010-02-11T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.baremetal.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:23:16","slug":"cruise-world-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Cruise World Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019ve spent ample time over the last year and a half thinking twice about buying that expensive bottle of wine, you\u2019ve shopped for the gas station with the best prices and you\u2019ve put off investing in a new wardrobe. Or just investing, period.
\nRecession is the word, of course.
\nWhile airlines and banks have been going out of business, cruise operators have expanded. Granted, some of the blueprints for new ships were done long before the recession, but the proof is in number of cruise passengers.
\nIn 2009, the number of cruise passengers rose by 3.9%. This year, when the figures are final, that growth is expected to be 6.4%. Figures produced by the Cruise Lines International Association<\/a> show that the number of internationally sourced passengers has more than doubled in the last decade. In other words, twice as many of us are going to other countries for our cruise fixes.
\nWill it continue? Barring an even harsher economic downturn, it probably will. With 26 new ships over the last two years, cruise lines plan to scale back on the building, and move ships around to places where cruising represents a new market opportunity.
\nBecause you\u2019re reading this, you likely already know what you like about cruising. Once that\u2019s a given, you\u2019re only haggling over the price.
\nThat\u2019s it, we\u2019re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019ve spent ample time over the last year and a half thinking twice about buying that expensive bottle of wine, you\u2019ve shopped for the gas station with the best prices and you\u2019ve put off investing in a new wardrobe. Or just investing, period. Recession is the word, of course. While airlines… Continue reading Cruise World Expansion<\/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":[15],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-prices","tag-recession","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}