by Przemysław Myszka

To say that the cruise industry is booming would be a huge understatement.

The Baltic and southeast Norwegian market has been growing uninterruptedly since the beginning of this century, including the years when other businesses were crippling under the financial, eurozone, and the EU-Russia economic war crises.

We're talking with Claus Bødker who heads Cruise Baltic, an organisation tasked with promoting our region to the cruise lines, about the current state of the regional cruising business, what makes it crisis-proof, is there such a thing as a typical Baltic cruise guest, will we see more tourists from Far East Asia coming on a cruise to our region anytime soon, and is having good looks only sufficient to become a star on the cruise catwalk.

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