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Cruise Industry in the Tank in Seattle

Additional cruise lines cancel sailings out of Seattle for the rest of 2020.

There were 213 cruise ship sailings out of Seattle for the 2019 Alaskan cruise season. The estimate is that each ship docking brought in $4M in economic activity to the city of Seattle. Simple math makes the economic hit at $852M in lost revenue to myriad vendors and suppliers who benefited from the people coming and going through the city.

See this short news item, Princess Cruises and Holland America cancel remaining cruises out of Seattle. FYI, Holland American is headquartered in Seattle. How about 2021?

Steve Myers shared the link above. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.