Gary Vaynerchuk on cruises post-COVID

    by Tufail: Finance

    Gary Vaynerchuk, Jordi Hays, and John Coogan appeared live on TBPN to discuss a bold prediction from Threadguy: that cruises are a pre-COVID phenomenon and will never again reach peak attendance. Threadguy stated, “I believe that cruises are fundamentally a pre COVID thing. They'll never hit an all time high in attendance again. It's a pre COVID phenomenon,” adding, “I don't believe people will ever be able to get back into cruises.” The full discussion can be found at and

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    I believe that cruises are fundamentally a pre-COVID thing. They'll never, cruise lines will never hit an all-time high in attendance again. It's a pre-COVID phenomenon. It's one of these things that people will never be able to get back into. I don't believe it. I don't believe people will ever be able to get back into cruises. It's one of these things that you just, has a stigma around it forever. It's going to be seen as like gross and like, it's going to be seen as gross, germy, thick. It's, it's, uh, I don't think cruises will ever have their day again. ever it's over the whole cruise thing is completely finished it's going to be seen as like low class and gross covid cruise hantavirus cruise it's going to be seen as as low low class and gross i think i really did i really do nobody will want to go they won't be able to sell they'll be selling the ships at cost carnival will be breaking the ships down into yachts they'll be selling the cruise ships to sam altman as a yacht it's over it's over man who's you're not taking your girl on a cruise for honeymoon really cruise