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☆ Rape at sea: How a broken system is failing passengers and darkening the cruise industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Cruise ship companies are failing sexual assault victims, lawsuits seen by Business Insider show. Carnival told the Washington Post last year that the alleged assailant was fired from the cruise line but that he was never charged. "The truth is, cruise companies don't know much about the employees they hire," he told BI. "I don't know how they sleep at night, I really don't"Jamie Barnett, from the organization International Cruise Victims (ICV), told BI that the behavior of cruise companies makes victims feel "lost and very isolated." Cruise companies, she said, "will fight tooth and nail before they would roll over and not do what they needed to do, to keep the public from knowing."

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☆ Lobster dinners, luxury goods, and go karting: everyday travelers are splashing out on their cruises
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Onboard spending jumped from an average of $66 a day to $81 a day from the second quarter of 2019 to the same time in 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementFrom WiFi to fancy dinners to go-karting at sea , cruise travelers have been spending big at sea. In the third quarter of 2021, Arnold Donald, the former president and CEO of Carnival Corp, was already noting "off the charts" onboard spend . Amid the influx of ultra-cheap cruises , onboard spend caught up to and surpassed 2019 levels before fares did. "It's a longer sales cycle that helps build that overall onboard revenue product," Mark Kempa, Norwegian's executive vice president and CFO, said during the call.

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☆ MSC cruise ship fails health inspection with the lowest score in years after CDC finds a door handle covered in hamburger blood and yogurt containers with 'black filth residue'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The cruise ship MSC Seaside failed its CDC's sanitation inspection on April 27, records show. The vessel received a 67 out of 100 — the lowest score a cruise ship has received in five years. The cruise ship MSC Seaside failed the CDC's vessel sanitation inspection at the end of April with an unusually low score. The vessel received 67 out of 100 points, nearly twenty points below the agency's passing grade. In the past 10 years, only three other cruise ships have received sanitation scores below 70, CDC records show.

☆ A cruise passenger is suing MSC, saying she was sexually assaulted by a crew member
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A passenger is suing MSC Cruises, claiming a crew member sexually assaulted her on February 9. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA cruise passenger is suing MSC Cruises, saying she was sexually assaulted by a crew member while aboard the ship, the MSC Meraviglia. The lawsuit says the woman's husband confronted the crew member, whom the husband said apologized before security was alerted. MSC Cruises had fired another crew member weeks earlier after a passenger and staff members caught him filming the passenger from a toilet cubicle. MSC Cruises did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ A crew member on a cruise ship was fired after a passenger alleged he'd filmed her in a bathroom, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An MSC Cruises crew member was fired for filming a passenger from a toilet stall on a ship. The passenger shared a TikTok video of her confronting the man, who admitted he was in the wrong. The employee was fired after the clip was shared on Monday, an MSC representative told news.com.au. A representative for MSC Cruises told news.com.au that the employee had since been fired. MSC Cruises didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of a woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship that was returning to Florida early Thursday morning. A 36-year-old woman, who was not identified, was found 18 miles from the shore of Port Canaveral, according to the Coast Guard's southeast district. "The crew performed an immediate search and rescue operation, alongside the US Coast Guard who supported search efforts with boats and a helicopter," MSC Cruises said. "Unfortunately, despite the rapid rescue operation, the passenger sustained fatal injuries. The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the woman's fall and did not have additional details Thursday.

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