Cruise industry conference opens on upbeat note

The Seatrade Cruise Global conference, the main world event for the cruise industry, begins Monday at the Miami Beach Convention Center with participants and exhibitors from 140 countries and in an optimistic environment for the first time since the pandemic broke out in 2020.

The central point of the four-day conference is the so-called “State of the Industry”, a panel that will take place on Tuesday, April 26 to present the current situation of the sector and reveal the perspectives for the future, but the The Seatrade Cruise Global will be the first face-to-face update of a sector of global importance, which in 2019, before the pandemic debacle, employed 1.2 million people and contributed $155 billion to the world economy The conference will also serve to analyze the lessons learned during the “desert crossing”, especially in terms of health security, and learn about the technological and other innovations that have emerged in recent years.

 The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) which encompasses the vast majority of companies that carry out transoceanic cruises, estimates that by the end of July or the beginning of August 2022, 100 of 100 of its partners will have managed to normalize their activity.