Cruise Industry Convention Addressed Skyrocketing Fuel Prices

The major representatives from the world cruise industry met this week in Miami to address the industry’s problems that have significantly eroded profits and threaten even more, given the current prices of fuel.

The 24th cruise conference opened this Monday and ended Thursday in the Miami Beach convention center where 10,000 people linked to the industry and over a thousand stands from a hundred different countries were on display, according to the organizers.

The event was organized by the Florida Caribbean Cruise and Cruise Lines International and included seminars, experts’ conferences, and state of the industry, innovations, the new mega vessels and international schedules.

The Florida cruise association is made up of eleven companies that together operate a hundred vessels calling into tourism destinations all over the globe. Some of those companies are Carnival Corporation; Royal Caribbean; Celebrity Cruises; Disney Cruise Line; Princess Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.