by Cruise Market Watch | Feb 16, 2013 | Hot Topics, Marketing, Revenue, Stock
The “Pop Tart Cruise” on Carnival Splendor November 2010 was greeted with curiosity and had little impact to bookings or ticket prices. The Costa Concordia January 2012 incident was greeted with shock. Bookings and prices did drop and while they have since...
by Cruise Market Watch | Jan 22, 2012 | Cruise Market Community, Hot Topics
Thus far pricing* for sailings on Costa (all Costa ships, all sailing departure dates) has not changed since the Concordia accident on January 13, 2012. Click on graph below for advertised prices from January 7 to January 21, 2012. Note little or no change to the...
by Cruise Market Watch | Jan 14, 2012 | Cruise Market Community, Hot Topics
I’ve always been fond of the quotation “the law of flotation wasn’t discovered contemplating the sinking of things.” This has certainly held true for the cruise industry – growing the annual number of passengers carried nearly 5 times over the past 20 years. But...
by Cruise Market Watch | Feb 8, 2009 | Marketing, Revenue
In December, I posted Cruise Market Watch’s three New Year's resolutions. One of which was to look at one specific market niche each month where cruise lines can increase penetration, grow market share and revenue. This post is the first installment of that series....
