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People Taking Wedding And Honeymoon Cruises Not What You Think

General you think of people on a “Just Married” cruise as being young and on their first honeymoon. Well a recent survey of travel agents shows that supposition to be false. It turns out that 40 percent of travel agents report second-marriage couples are their largest source of business and another 32 percent said they are booking more weddings on cruises along with their family and friends. The shifting demographics were noticed during a survey conducted by the Cruise Lines International Association.

“The wedding and honeymoon cruise business is off the wall — it’s fabulous,” said Sylvia Berman, a member of CLIA’s Travel Agency Advisory Board and owner of Post Haste Travel in Hollywood, Fla. “Because couples are marrying later, they know they’ll have kids sooner and if they don’t travel they might have to wait 10 or 12 years.”
Of the 460 CLIA-member travel agents who participated in the poll, 20 percent of agents said the biggest change in their honeymoon and wedding business came from more couples renewing vows aboard cruise ships, and 8 percent saw an increase in same-sex couples choosing cruises as romantic vacation options.

Honeymooners and people getting married on cruises are big business for cruise companies and travel agents alike, so expect more inducements to be wed on Sea. Let’s hope your “sea-legs” hold out long enough to say “I do!”.

For more information: Cruising.org