On Saturday the Port of Los Angeles bid farewell to the Grand Princess, the Carnival cruise ship that had stranded a full load of passengers outside San Francisco for several days at the outbreak of Covid in March last year. It was LA’s first sailing since the pandemic began.
Because the travel and leisure sector was one of the stock market’s worst sufferers from the pandemic, many investors are now looking in that direction for the most promising winners to bounce back.
Holidaymakers’ willingness to put up with this summer’s regulatory twists and turns for the chance to dive under a foreign beach umbrella show that the demand is there and thousands, in particular, have been flocking to cruise liners. However, when the music
stopped
