n to 2021 2021, but what can your clients expect next year? Laura French finds out
DESTINATIONS WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2021 | CRUISE
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ith ongoing travel restrictions,
uncertainty around restart dates and general hesitation in the market, it might not seem like the easiest time to sell a cruise, but the reality is there’s a whole sea of potential clients desperate to get back on the waters as soon as the time is right, and they’ll be looking to you for advice. Clia, the World Health
Organization, the UK Chamber of Shipping, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a range of other bodies have been working with the cruise lines to devise stringent protocols ready for when sailing does resume, but what exactly will it look like? We’ve put together a guide to the key protocols – pre-departure, on board and ashore – to give you an idea.
TESTS AND TEMPERATURE CHECKS When it comes to the departure process, guests going on an ocean cruise with any Clia
member will now require a negative Covid test result to be able to board. Some lines are asking for two
tests; Crystal Cruises and Saga Cruises passengers will need to take a Covid test at home as well as at the terminal, while Aurora Expeditions will give everyone a PCR test the day before boarding as well as requiring one taken in their home country. Others are taking it up a notch; MSC Cruises recently announced it would be testing all passengers on board mid-way through their cruise, while Viking Cruises has installed the first full-scale, at-sea PCR testing lab on Viking Star, with capacity to test all guests and crew every day (soon to be rolled out on the line’s other ships).
Guests can also expect
screenings and temperature checks to be ubiquitous both before and during the cruise. Virgin Voyages is installing thermal camera technology to monitor temperatures at the terminal and on board, for ²
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