On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:13:30 -0400, Charles
wrote something wonderfully witty:
>In article , George Leppla
> wrote:
>
>> I give Carnival a lot of credit for hanging in there for as long as they
>> did. They had an aggressive marketing campaign but the bottom line was that
>> not enough non-smokers booked the ship to off-set the loss of group
>> business.
>>
>> FWIW - I don't smoke..... quit almost 20 years ago.
>
>Sure you don't smoke but you sell cruises and particularly group
>cruises. My brother in law who never smoked owns a liquor store that
>sells cigarettes. He seems rather ambivalent about smoking bans and
>taxes because of that. I don't give Carnival much credit for only
>banning smoking on one ship for a few years. It has to be a fleet wide
>policy to be successful.
>
Well if one non-smoking ship isn't profitable how is entire fleet of
them going to be? Also, until just recently Europe lagged America in
their hardcore anti-smoking policies. Don't the Cruise Lines move
their ships about to include European ports? Wouldn't that mean that
when the Paradise was non-smoking that it wouldn't be a viable ship to
port anywhere in Europe?
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