If your perception is cruise vacations are limited to big ships with laser tag, bumper cars, ice skating rinks and Broadway shows, you’re missing the fastest growing segment of the industry. Luxury yacht and expedition vessels offer those of you with wanderlust easy access to remote places that are hard to reach by road or air. During Seatrade Cruise Global this week in Miami, of the nine scheduled press conferences, six were either about small luxury yachts or expedition cruising. PonantSeabourn, a unit of Carnival Corporation & Plc, used the event to reveal interiors of its first of two expedition vessels, Seabourn Venture, coming in June 2021. SilverseaEarlier this year, Silversea announced for the first time in its history it will have two world cruises in the same year, including the first-ever luxury expedition world voyage.

Source: Forbes April 11, 2019 01:57 UTC