Cast adrift

How coronavirus crippled the cruise industry

- IAN MACEWAN

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Billion Pound Cruises: All at Sea

Thursday, ITV HD, 9pm

With passenger numbers doubling in the past decade, at the start of 2020 the £120 billion cruise industry was looking forward to another bumper year.

However, as coronavirus spread around the world early this year, many passengers found themselves stranded. ITV’s Billion Pound Cruises: All at Sea hears from British holidaymakers who were on cruises at the time and examines the affect the pandemic had on the industry.