Articles tagged “carnival”

Travel companies have built a banking-like float system around consumer prepayments, without banking-like protections, and the scale is now too large to ignore.

The competitors to Musk's Starlink will eventually up their game. It's never healthy for customers and end-users to be dependent on a single vendor, regardless of the Starlink's competitive advantage at this moment.

The UAE moves to stabilize tourism as demand drops, Hyatt ties executive pay to fixing direct bookings, and Carnival doubles down on value-driven travel.

The Iran war's fuel shock is already showing up in travel companies' numbers.

Now that the cruise industry has moved past its pandemic recovery, Carnival CEO and chief climate officer Josh Weinstein’s focus on greenhouse gas emissions marks a notable shift, especially as the sector faces intensifying scrutiny over its environmental impact.

Cruising is rebounding fast, but as the industry posts record growth, there will be mounting scrutiny on sustainability.

The global cruise sector is led by a highly concentrated group of four companies that control 79% of the market.

On today's pod we look at Spirit's pushback on JetBlue's new beau, Carnival's marketing success, and the influencers threatening Antarctica.

Carnival is using aggressive marketing and exclusive destinations to sustain historically high cruise prices, even as economic uncertainty weighs on other travel sectors.

The pay for a dozen travel company CEOs in the S&P 500 attracted compensation greater than half of their peers in the S&P 500.