16. Air travel brings rapid change.
In the 1960s it became cheaper and faster to travel by air than by sea. Shipping companies started fly-cruises, offering to their ships at faraway ports. Older transatlantic liners were not be able to compete with jumbo jets. The original Queen Mary, for example, went out service in 1967 and ended her days as a hotel and museum ship in Long Beach, California.
Mass cruising
Since the early 1970s, tour operators and cruise lines in Europe have offered cruises as a holiday experience. Since the seventies, cruises have operated in all continents and new, larger ships have entered service in recent years. The industry has never been so successful and passengers have never had so much choice. Among the new cruise ships are Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas and Cunard’s Queen Mary. A new generation of cruise ships has arrived.
In the 1960s it became cheaper and faster to travel by air than by sea. Shipping companies started fly-cruises, offering to their ships at faraway ports. Older transatlantic liners were not be able to compete with jumbo jets. The original Queen Mary, for example, went out service in 1967 and ended her days as a hotel and museum ship in Long Beach, California.
Mass cruising
Since the early 1970s, tour operators and cruise lines in Europe have offered cruises as a holiday experience. Since the seventies, cruises have operated in all continents and new, larger ships have entered service in recent years. The industry has never been so successful and passengers have never had so much choice. Among the new cruise ships are Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas and Cunard’s Queen Mary. A new generation of cruise ships has arrived.