Cruise Events Are Good For Your Business - Seasite.com

Joyce Landry & Josephine Kling are credited with being the first distribution channel between the cruise industry and corporate America. Visionaries who led the way in seagoing corporate meetings and incentives, these two ignited the corporate market for cruises by spearheading the meetings-at-sea concept back in 1982. With their exclusive focus on events and meetings-at-sea, they have played a crucial role in advancing the cruise ship as a viable meeting venue and creating a whole new market opportunity for the industry.

According to the Cruise Lines International Association, the North American cruise industry’s impact on the US economy grew to $37.85bn in 2010, a 7.8% increase over 2009.

In 2009, a year of global recession, the impact was $35.1bn. The record year was 2008, when the industry had a $40.2bn impact.

Last year (2010), cruising generated 329,943 jobs that had a $15.2bn wage impact on the US economy, a 5.1% increase in employment and a 7% rise in wages over 2009.

CLIA said the economic contribution spread across every state economy via $18bn in direct cruise industry spending, with 10 states accounting for 78% of total employment and income impacts.

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