{"id":18679,"date":"2020-07-14T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=18679"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:23:09","slug":"cruise-experts-on-the-state-of-cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/cruise-experts-on-the-state-of-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Experts on the State of Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18678\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18678\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cruise-Ships.jpg\" alt=\"cruise ships\" width=\"850\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cruise-Ships.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cruise-Ships-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cruise-Ships-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cruise-Ships-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHEL VERDURE. For over 30 years, Mr. Verdure has built a reputation as the world\u2019s top photographer of cruise ships. When he stepped off the gangplank of the Celebrity Silhouette on March 13, completing his 284th cruise, he found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cruise-ships-set-sail-knowing-the-deadly-risk-to-passengers-and-crew-11588346502?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his industry in collapse<\/a>\u00a0and himself out of work. The cruise business could take years to recover. The industry stock he bought to pad his nest egg crashed. He is downgrading his retirement plan.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harrison Liu, executive at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasoceanvoyages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlas Ocean Voyages<\/a> orchestrated an in-depth Zoom seminar \u00a0devoted to the current state of the cruise industry. The panel included experts in the field, many of whom having spent most of their professional careers in the world of cruising.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virtual Cruise Media Panel III\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DK_J0H2qOMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 30 years, Mr. Verdure has built a reputation as the world\u2019s top photographer of cruise ships. When he stepped off the gangplank of the Celebrity Silhouette on March 13, completing his 284th cruise, he found his industry in collapse and himself out of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3965,684,2929,3966],"class_list":["post-18679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-travel","tag-cruise-industry","tag-cruise-ship","tag-cruising","tag-harrison-liu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cruise Experts on the State of Cruising - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A panel of experts, many of whom have spent most of their professional careers in the cruising industry, weigh in on the current state of crusing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/cruise-experts-on-the-state-of-cruising\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cruise Experts on the State of Cruising - 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