Archive for 2012/02/01

Cruise bookings crash after Concordia disaster

With fearful stories and tales of incompetence relayed through the world’s media of the disaster that ensued on that friday night in the Mediterranean on board the Concordia ship, cruise bookings have obviously been affected.

Travel agents who are the main purveyors of cruise holidays worldwide are fearing that this season (the industry’s busiest) is almost a lost cause with sales figures falling 30% in places, but despite that they hope this will not be a long term issue.  Read more