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...The Explora I is just the latest “floating hotel” in the fast-growing luxury market — with hotel companies themselves eager to get involved alongside cruise operators such as Scenic, Silversea and Seabourn...
...Josh Leibowitz, chief executive of the luxury cruise line Seabourn, describes the atmosphere as being “like a start-up”. “We’re talking about restarting a whole business,” he says....
...Josh Leibowitz, president of Seabourn, Carnival’s ultra-luxury cruise line, said: “All day long the ship is being looked after, polished, cleaned; there’s obviously not as much wear and tear without guests...
...Carnival, whose 10 cruise lines include Cunard, P&O Cruises and Seabourn, will launch the technology on Princess Cruises’ Regal Princess in November before rolling it out across the group....
...This was only the third time the luxury cruise line Silversea had sailed this route....
...I was in French Polynesia, which is neither quite French nor Polynesian, and on a cruise that is not a cruise....
...Cruise lines don’t have that option; everything needs to be shipshape on a maiden voyage....
...But the industry has recently been at the centre of negative publicity following a fire aboard a Princess ship; a car crash during a celebrity cruise day trip; a pirate attack on luxury liner Seabourn near...
...Seabourn Cruise Line also begins voyages with maiden calls in Tripoli this April....
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