TUI Group tests waters with three-night social-distanced cruise
A TUI ship has set sail for the first time since the cruise industry was shut down by coronavirus.
Cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 set sail for a weekend cruise in the North Sea on Friday night, with 1,200 passengers on board, compared to its normal 2,900 capacity.
The ship sailed from the northern port of Hamburg toward Norway, and passengers will spend the weekend at sea with no land stops before returning to Germany on Monday.
TUI Group CEO Fritz Joussen told a German news agency: "Interest in holidays at sea remains very high."
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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