Singapore considers starting ‘cruise to nowhere’ amid the pandemic
The Singapore Tourism Board has hired a Norway-based risk management company to create a cruise compliance and certification scheme, to be "benchmarked against global health, safety, and hygiene standards".
The STB Regional Director of the Americas Rachel Loh, told The Washington Post that cruise lines would be required to pass an audit for certification to return to sailing. (Source: Pixabay) While some countries have been participating in the trend of flying to nowhere, Singapore — that recently decided against it, in view of the environmental consequences of fantasy flights — has now come up with a new initiative of starting ‘cruises to nowhere’.
Amid the pandemic, while there are many restrictions on crossing international borders, for fear of contracting the infection from high-risk areas, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has begun to explore some new health and safety protocols that would allow for “cruises to nowhere”, according to the Singapore-based newspaper, The Straits Times.
It is being reported that STB has already hired a Norway-based risk management company DNV GL, to create a cruise compliance and certification scheme, to be “benchmarked against global health, safety, and hygiene standards”. This is being done so as to ensure cruise lines get to sail again.
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