Besides the vaccine, cruise liners are ensuring that cruising is safer than ever

From early July through mid-December 2020, CLIA said more than 200 sailings took place with multiple layers of enhanced health and safety measures. The success of these initial sailings demonstrates new protocols are working as designed — to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 among passengers, crew, and the destinations the cruise ships visit. TTJ speaks to two cruise professionals who are eager to set sail once more, and again create memorable experiences for their loyal and valued guests in 2021.

2021 comes as a new dawn and hope for the travel industry, including the cruise sector. Due to the pandemic, undeniably the travel and cruise industry’s landscape had evolved drastically and will never be the same. However, there is a silver lining of hope and learning curve to this and at Genting Cruise Lines over the past year, we had rethink, redesign and enhance our operations to adapt to the new travel environment and trends, especially in safety and preventive measures. We are proud to be the first cruise line in the world to commence and successfully launch safe pilot cruises with Dream Cruises in both Taiwan and Singapore in 2020.

Moving ahead, we remain highly optimistic of the continued and gradual rise in demand for cruises again in 2021, especially with the global roll-out of vaccines for COVID-19. Together with our enhanced preventive and safety steps in place, we have a readily available blueprint that will enable us to continue to explore new opportunities to resume safe cruise operations in different countries in the not too distant future.