hey everybody its Bruce here with
traveling with Bruce welcome to my
channel hope you like this video we're
gonna talk about the 2018 sailing
regions of the world where our cruisers
going around the world what regions and
well let's take a look at what we got
here I mean 30 million passengers are
going to be on cruise ships in 2019 27
million we're on passenger ships of all
ready for 2018 we're almost finished
2018 with all the bookings that have
been pre made there are 386 cruise ships
in the world right now forty billion
dollars in revenue for this industry and
cruise ships go everywhere on this
planet is absolutely amazing the the
business is booming growing at five to
seven percent a year and I'll tell ya
it's becoming the popular thing to do
you haven't tried a cruise you should
try it by the way you can catch me money
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let's talk about the number one region
in the world for cruising today and ask
to be guess what surprise surprise it's
the Caribbean the Caribbean is the
number one territory in the world for
most cruisers thirty eight point four
percent of all cruise ship passengers go
on a cruise in the Caribbean every year
here's a shot of the Miami terminal
looking how big it is with six seven
ships at a time
five million passengers a year coming in
and out of here a year here is the port
everglades at fort lauderdale that's
their terminal huge bunch of ships at a
time seven eight at a time and that's
why the caribbean is the number one
place to go here's a shot of the Cayman
Islands you're coming back to your ship
there's one there's a second one waiting
for you
a third one there's a fourth one back
tucked in behind there it's not uncommon
for seven cruise ships at a time to be
in the Caymans on any one day and with
an average of 3,500 passengers per ship
now think about that upwards of twenty
plus thousand people at a visited Cayman
Islands you could go to a private island
like this labadie and Haiti with Royal
Caribbean and enjoy yourself this is
becoming a popular thing for cruise
ships to do private islands private
resorts for their passengers to go to
with full security all the amenities the
second region that is dominating the
world 15% Asia Pacific here's a shot of
Hong Kong this area for for China Japan
South Korea Bali this is an area that is
growing quickly in popularity although
lately there's been a bit of an issue
with regard to Chinese deals being made
and availability accessibility so some
of the North American cruise lines have
been pulling back a little bit but new
cruise lines are coming into China and
Asia for the business this is an area
that will continue to grow dramatically
the third area traditionally has been
one of the most popular the
Mediterranean fourteen point two percent
of travelers love to cruise in the
Mediterranean for 2018 14.2% when here
here's Venice beautiful quartz the
beautiful thing about sailing in the
Mediterranean and one of the real handy
things when you go to a place like this
here Cadiz and Spain you're dropped off
right downtown the cruise ship is
practically downtown in most spots not
Rome however you got to be got to get
off about 80 kilometers away and take a
bus ride in but you take a ship tour and
they take you on a bus right next door
to this building right here it's
fantastic and anything explore the city
of Rome either on your own or with a
group you take a train in take a train
out but most ports of call in the
Mediterranean you are literally right
downtown look at these guys three ships
right in the core you can literally walk
off the pier and the port and just
explore the city yourself it's
absolutely wonderful Marseille France
look at that
gorgeous views the Mediterranean in the
in the the Riviera the Riviera and
military uniform all right the next area
is northern Europe British Isles Norway
Iceland this includes of the port
nearest Paris this is nine point four
percent of the business so about not
quite three million passengers a year on
cruise ships are coming to Dublin
Ireland like this the shot here or there
coming to a Liverpool in England there's
they're catching Cork there kept going
to Belfast they're going to all kinds of
places here's another shot up Edinboro
there's a beautiful place to spend the
day this the British Isles iceland is
another region this whole region
encompasses almost nine months nine
point four percent of the cruise
business is up in this region the next
one Alaska Alaska catches four percent
of the cruise market and it's still
growing and here's why
look at these views of these glaciers
these cruise ships can come right into
these ports and get right up there and
you can watch these these incredible
views take a train ride into Skagway
what incredible photography you have an
opportunity to take photos like you
can't believe the other area with a 4%
share of the market is Australia New
Zealand and why not look at this there's
the famous Opera House there on the
bottom right here's another shot of the
Sydney Bridge the Opera House for
percent of the market 1.2 million
passengers are doing Australia that
includes obviously Sydney Melbourne
here's Melbourne beautiful beautiful
places that gives you that gives you an
idea right there
3.3 percent of the market is for the
u.s. west coast and Mexican cruises the
Mexican Riviera so you can take the
cruise right here to a place like
Mazatlan where I was one day get
yourself downtown buy a little shuttle
bus and walk through the downtown core
there's the ship I'm standing on top of
the Best Western Hotel right on the roof
taking a shot here of mazatlán old town
Mazatlan see the cathedral chair just
behind that
poll so I decided walk around a bit here
zoom in on my shaky little camera grab a
shot of of that Cathedral just beautiful
sorry for shaky but you see what I'm
talking about it's beautiful the weather
is great a lot of Americans and
Canadians love to head to the west coast
grab a cruise ship and head down to
Mexico fantastic the next area that is
important two percent for South America
two percent for the Canary Islands 1.4
percent for transatlantic cruises and
1.3 percent for Bermuda cruises then we
have an area for Canada and New England
in the fall every year it's quite
popular for transatlantic cruises to
come on over to the st. Lawrence Seaway
and head to a place like this right here
Quebec City on the st. Lawrence Seaway
or come on in to downtown Montreal and
catch the fall colors the late summer
views absolutely gorgeous then coming
out of Saint Lawrence your into Halifax
Boston end up in New York absolutely
wonderful there's a bunch of cruises
that run from New York up to a Canada
here 1.2 percent of the market or about
3 million or so passengers a year for
taking advantage of the Canada New
England cruises there's the Indian ocean
cruising area that's expanding there's
Hawaii at point nine percent just about
two 2.6 million people a year cruise
either to Hawaii or they cruise around
Hawaii on pride America with the
Norwegian ship Panama Canal cruises of
course are popular but only point four
of one percent just but one half of 1%
of all cruisers take Panama Canal
cruises this is a bucket list item for a
lot of people and at this point about
one and a half linear take advantage
over Africa also 0.4 percent us a
domestic waterways point three percent
that would be up the Mississippi River
and Arctic cruises and world cruises
world cruises if you take a cruise
around the world you are in select
company point one percent of all
cruisers go on a
Kruse so it's not even 1% it's 1/10 of
1% it's expensive and that's why and
another reason it's up there so if you
doing it it takes quite some time to go
around the world you might be on a ship
for 120 days or longer but you get used
like this not too bad kind of nice to
look at there you go
the popular regions of the world to go
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