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Operator of Hong Kong’s ‘cruises to nowhere’ to lobby for higher on-board capacity after overwhelming response
- The president of Genting Cruise Lines, currently the only operator for such trips, says 20,000 people have taken part in the cruises since the end of July
- Currently the voyages are required to run at half capacity, among other pandemic-control measures
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The operator behind Hong Kong’s “cruises to nowhere” is seeking negotiations with the government to lift Covid-19 curbs on capacity after receiving an overwhelming response from the public in its first month of voyages.
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Kent Zhu Fuming, president of Genting Cruise Lines, told the Post he was planning to submit a proposal to the government in two weeks on easing restrictions, insisting that the company’s “seacation” product provided a lifeline for the battered tourism industry.
Zhu said since the Genting Dream cruise ship set sail at the end of July, the line had run about 15 voyages attracting a total of nearly 20,000 passengers.
In an interview with the Post on Tuesday, he also said the operator planned to make inroads into the emerging Greater Bay Area market.
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He said while operating capacity was halved under existing regulations, the company had seen a take-up rate of more than 90 per cent on its packages.
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