The global cruise industry expected to carry 32 million passengers and take in USD 71 billion in revenue this year. Cruise lines stopped sailing in mid-March after several high-profile outbreaks at sea. Cruise companies are talking to U.S. regulators, to foreign ports and to each other, said Brian Salerno, senior vice president for maritime policy at the Cruise Lines International Association, a trade group that represents 95 per cent of ocean cruise companies. Kishana Taylor, a postdoctoral fellow who studies the influenza virus, was already wary of cruise ships because of norovirus outbreaks. Robert Kwortnik, an associate professor at Cornell University who studies the cruise industry, thinks the industry will make some long-term changes to get back on its feet.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2020 07:52 UTC