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The Documentary Podcast

Cruising - New Destinations

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

China is a huge new market for the cruise industry. Philip Dodd cruises across the South China Sea to find out how the Chinese have taken to life on board ship. Boarding in Shanghai Philip meets the passengers and crew who will sail the coast of China down to Hong Kong. The Chinese want different things from a cruise from Westerners – they don’t want to sit in the sun. What they do want though is more of a sense of community on board. Ships are now being fitted especially for the Chinese market with these requirements in mind. As well as Asia, Philip looks to see if there is an appetite for cruising on the continent of Africa. He’ll be talking to the market specialists in South Africa where the numbers are on the rise. Picture: Cruise ship in Hong Kong, Credit: Philip Dodd

Transcript

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0:00.0

They are destructive monsters, say opponents, small, floating, glorious cities, say supporters,

0:12.4

whichever, cruise ships and the industry of which they are part, tell us about the way

0:18.1

the world is changing. If the stereotype of the cruise ship passenger is an older American,

0:25.5

that too is changing. According to the information from the China National Tourism

0:31.5

Administration, next year, just for the cruise, over two meaning cruises holidays, and

0:39.3

now we have more ports. So that's why along the coastline, along the cities like Shanghai,

0:45.4

they have the harvors. A lot of people like to travel back to cruise.

0:49.6

I can see, eventually, the whole of sub-Sahara Africa being a cruise destination, not only

0:56.1

for people from outside of Africa coming in to visit and learn more about and enjoy the

1:02.6

destinations and the people and the culture, but at the same time for Africans to cruise

1:08.2

more around their own region.

1:11.3

I'm Philip Dodd, and for the BBC World Service, I'm going to set foot on a cruiser for the

1:17.1

first time and explore the shape of the industry now and to come, how wider global changes

1:24.5

are reflected in who takes cruises, what are the new destinations, and the kind of experiences

1:30.9

we now want.

1:33.6

Once it was the European rich who took cruises, set sail around the world, especially during

1:40.2

the 1930s economic depression.

1:43.9

Well, we're off in the world, cruise now bound across the Atlantic for the Mediterranean

1:48.9

port, through the Suez Canal to India, then onto Java, China, Japan, across the Pacific,

1:57.8

back to the American continent, through the Panama Canal, returning to New York, and

2:02.8

I know we're going to have a jolly fine time.

2:07.6

Now, cruise ships carry thousands of passengers, offer eateries galore and a vast amount of

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