Seatrade Cruise Global, the world’s leading event for the cruise ship industry cruise shipswill begin next 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, according to the agency Eph.
In its four days, the so-called “State of the Industry” stands out, a panel that will take place on Tuesday, April 26, when the situation of the sector will be presented and the prospects for the future will be revealed.
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According to the Spanish agency, the Seatrade Cruise Global is the first face-to-face update of a sector of global importance, which in 2019, before the pandemic, employed 1.2 million people and contributed 155 billion dollars to the economy. world. It will also serve to analyze the lessons learned, especially in terms of health security.
The cruise sector was one of the hardest hit by movement restrictions than the COVID-19 pandemic, as the figures for 2020 clearly show. The number of passengers embarked worldwide was 5.8 million that year, a 81% less than in 2019; jobs supported in the sector totaled 576,000 (-51%) and the contribution of cruises to the world economy was 63.4 billion dollars (-59%).
Significantly, the first panel of the conference will be dedicated to “resilience”, a key word in this event, the second to the novelties in the map of global destinations for cruises and the third to new products and technology for cruise ports.
The conference includes a fair with some 700 exhibitors, presenting their novelties in interior design, entertainment, environment and health, accommodation, information technology, ports and destinations, safety and security, equipment and shipbuilding.
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There are not only companies at this huge fair, but also governments, port authorities and tourism promotion institutions from countries, regions or even port-cities.
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay are among the countries institutionally represented at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
With information from Eph.
