Most travel insurance has so many exclusions — including for epidemics — that I generally don’t advise people to bother with coverage unless they’re spending big bucks on a trip, like for a cruise. But what if you cancel your …

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Management consulting firm McKinsey is conducting weekly online surveys of consumers in the United States to guage their optimism and intent to spend across more than 30 categories. The latest data, from a survey of about 3,000 consumers May 11 …

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Andy Harmer, UK and Ireland director of Cruise Lines International Association (Clia) said that the cruise industry is leaning to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak. He told the Daily Telegraph: “As we face the prospect of new restrictions impacting our …

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Advertisement Cruise ships, with thousands of people tightly packed for extended periods of time, have long been known as efficient incubators of illnesses. “People on a large ship, all together, at the same time, all the time — you couldn’t …

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Olivere, SVP strategic sales trade partnerships, has been instrumental in creating Norwegian’s Partners First philosophy. Forging ‘unprecedented trust’ in the brand ‘In both hundreds of presentations to the trade, often done in tandem with Andy Stuart, and as a force …

Sales SVP Camille Olivere is leaving Norwegian Cruise Line Read more »