THE CRUISE INSIDER

Cruising as a commercial leisure phenomenon has existed for more than 175 years! I bet you didn’t know that. And you would not be alone; most people I run into assume it is a post-WWII American phenomenon, if they have given it any thought at all, and that it arose in the Caribbean at some point in the 1960’s or 70’s. But that would be wrong! I did not know that either when I first started in the industry, but when I found out, I started to research it. I was intrigued by how