cruisellama Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Extracted from roundup: " While speaking at the Seatrade Global 2021 conference earlier today, Royal Caribbean Group Chairman Richard Fain was asked his thoughts on getting back to full capacity as early as next year. "In terms of numbers next year, I definitely think so," Mr. Fain responded. "In our core markets, we expect to be essentially there by the end of this year." Mr. Fain did not elaborate what "core markets" exactly means. " ---------------- Doesn't it mean the participants of this blog site? SpeedNoodles, KristiZ, whitsmom and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 My guess is Florida ports as core markets and all of us too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellcee Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Core market would likely mean certain age groups and types of people who generally cruise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 I read that to mean geographic markets from a home port perspective, not passenger demographics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyfsu21 Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 I read this as geographic “core market” aka ports in Florida mainly Port of Miami and Port Everglades. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Opened ended enough to give lots of wiggle room. Not Australia. Royal doesn't do Europe in the winter so once could eliminate that region too. Galveston could qualify. Bayonne soon enough once Anthem comes home. US home ports could be considered core and no reason why Bayonne and Galveston can't run or be offered at the same capacity as Florida. Guests may not book to capacity but who is to say the ships are not available at capacity. "we expect to essentially" is also somewhat elusive. No investor can sue them over that ambiguity. Core market could also mean the drive to cruise market. Bayonne and Baltimore have high drive to guest volumes. I imagine Galveston does as well. That's not to say no one is flying to cruise this year, just that the core volume of guests will be drive to market guests. Allen2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 One more thing to remember is Fain talks mostly about RCG, not always RCI. So Celebrity and SilverSea ships are included in his ship math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 52 minutes ago, Matt said: are included in his ship math. "ship" is not how I first read that word and I was trying to figure out why you were critical of his math WAAAYTOOO, bryresangel, Matt and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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