23RD YEAR OF PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1998 JUNE 2020 ISSUE 125 PRICE $10.60 (INCL GST) JuJunene 20202020 EditionEdition forfor COVID-19COVID-19 COVERAGECOVERAGE KEEPKEEP SAFESAFE –– DREAMDREAM CRUISINGCRUISING This magazine has been produced in a controlled environment – Once received dispose of the plastic wrap responsibly and immediately wash your hands. Featuring a comprehensive coverage of Global Cruising www.cruisingnews.com 1 for Cruise Passengers, the Trade and the Industry www.cruisingnews.com PLAN YOUR NEXT REMARKABLE JOURNEY At Viking, we truly believe the excitement of planning your next travel adventure is second only to the journey itself. Now you can enjoy planning your future travels with our latest range of offers. Save up to $5,000 per couple on our collection of bespoke river, ocean and expedition voyages, including a bonus $400 per couple when you book your first Viking cruise by 31 July. Visit vikingcruises.com.au for more details. 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Much of what I wrote last time still sums up the situation. A great deal has been written about the future of cruising and how and when it will return, although in some countries limited cruising, river and ocean, is underway for This magazine has been produced in a controlled environment – Once received dispose of the plastic wrap responsibly and immediately wash your hands. locals. Hurtigruten’s MS Finnmarken has set sail from Bergen on their classic Featuring a comprehensive coverage of Global Cruising www.cruisingnews.com 1 for Cruise Passengers, the Trade and the Industry www.cruisingnews.com 12-day Original Coastal Voyage on the coast of Norway. Here in Australia Front Cover – Raelene James Captain Cook Cruises sailed on a Murray River cruise in June and plan more cruises in July, August and September. Our international borders remain closed. The Federal Tourism Minister has admitted international travel won’t This Edition resume until next year. Qantas has cancelled international flights, except some New Zealand flights, until late October. Slow Recovery 4 There are many who would return to cruising tomorrow, but the industry will have to invest in new procedures that will take time to plan and make workable. Arnold Donald CEO and President of Carnival Corporation is quoted as saying “We continue to get bookings and so on. So we’re anxious to go, too. But we only want to do it when the time is right. We can’t just look wholly at cruise.” He added “Our highest responsibility and our top priorities are, and they remain, New Silver Origin compliance, environmental protection and the health and safety and wellbeing 8 of our guests, our crew and the people and the places we go.” Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and its cruise line members have begun creating a new health framework to uphold the safety of guests and prepare for future operations in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. CLIA Managing Director Australasia Joel Katz said the industry was working with medical experts and health authorities internationally to lay a new foundation for the cruise sector as it prepared for its long-term recovery. Year Round Expeditions 10 It is a slow process as there are so many restrictions to overcome around the world dealing with various countries and destinations. It is easier for hotels as they only have to deal with the local health authorities. Also cruising relies on air transport. The suspension of cruise operations is likely to cost Australia more than $1.4 billion in lost economic activity by mid-September and threaten the jobs of more than 4,800 people, according to analysis commissioned by Cruise Lines Celebrity’s 30 Years International Association (CLIA) Australasia. Conducted by economic analysts 12 and forecasters AEC Group, the analysis shows the shutdown has already resulted in an economic loss of almost $500 million to the end of May, which in the absence of the Australian Government’s JobKeeper program would have cost almost 1,700 Australian jobs. It forecasts that if the cruise suspension continues beyond its current date of September 17 and into the summer high- season, the economic loss to Australia would total a further $3.8 billion and place another 13,000 jobs at risk. Meeting Mighty Moai Let us hope that when our next issue is published in late August we will have 20 some good news to report. Please keep safe and dream cruising! Kerry & John Treacy This magazine has been produced in a controlled The Genesis of a Stamp environment – Once received dispose of the plastic wrap 24 responsibly and immediately wash your hands. Plus the latest news and Proudly Published in Australia by John Treacy & Associates. information on Global Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Passenger Cruising Every effort is made to ensure the information published is correct. www.cruisingnews.com 3 Planning for aby John Treacyslow recovery! Since the shutdown of the global cruise the time comes to sail again. Many other sectors may follow when it comes industry back in March this year much teams of people around the world to our response.” has been written about the future of are working in tandem with experts to As mentioned on page 3 in our Editors cruising and how and when it will return. ensure we learn as much as possible Say the suspension of cruise operations The industry is in the hands of the from these unprecedented events and is likely to cost Australia more than US Centre for Disease Control and exceed community expectations in our $1.4 billion in lost economic activity by Prevention, World Health Organization response.” mid-September and threaten the jobs and the various Health, Government Maritime policy work underway of more than 4,800 people, according Agencies and Ports throughout the within CLIA would define the specific to analysis commissioned by Cruise world. screening, cleansing and medical Lines International Association (CLIA) protocols that cruise lines would adopt Australasia. Confidence has to be restored in travel, globally, in addition to those already in particularly cruising – it will come back CLIA Managing Director Australasia Joel place. strong, but will take time. Also it will Katz warned the economic cost in the need to adjust to the new regulations He said “while it was too early to meantime would extend far beyond and as Richard Fain, Royal Caribbean discuss specific procedures being the cruise lines themselves. chairman and CEO said “We will developed or the timing, the industry’s “Cruise tourism is worth $5.2 billion a innovate our products to meet the priority would be to ensure the safety year to the Australia economy and exciting demands.” and security of guests, crew and the supports more than 18,000 jobs. These communities that cruise lines visit. The jobs are spread across almost 50 Cruise Lines International Association challenges before us are great and (CLIA) and its cruise line members destinations and every state, including there is no quick fix, which is why we many regional communities and have begun creating a new health have embarked on a process that will framework to uphold the safety remote locations that have suffered be extremely thorough and will address enormously in the tourism shutdown. of guests and prepare for future the concerns that communities and The suspensions that cruise lines and operations in the wake of the COVID-19 authorities expect to see us confront.” crisis. governments have enacted worldwide Once finalised, the new protocols have been the right response as we CLIA Managing Director Australasia Joel would provide further opportunity confront COVID-19, but there is an Katz said the industry was working with to communicate with industry enormous cost to those who make medical experts and health authorities stakeholders, government and the up the wider cruise community,” he internationally to lay a new foundation wider public to provide reassurance on said.