Cruises is Travelog's fifth Guides domain, covering the sourced facts a cruise traveler actually needs: CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program inspection scores and outbreak-reporting thresholds, the Federal Maritime Commission's binding 2022 passenger-refund rule, the closed-loop passport exception, what actually differs between mainstream, luxury, and river cruise lines, and the often-underestimated all-in cost of a cruise beyond its advertised base fare.
Cruises was the single largest raw-demand signal in Travelog's entire non-Destination research corpus -- 345 mentions across cruise, cruises, cruising, and ship -- but was initially excluded from the site's pillar structure because a cruise is a fundamentally different product shape than a city/landmark or pillar/cluster guide. This domain revisits that exclusion, built around three government/semi-government sourcing anchors the original exclusion reasoning didn't fully account for: CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program, the Federal Maritime Commission, and State Department/CBP's passport rules. Two of the five pillars (Choosing a Cruise Line & Ship; Onboard Costs & Budgeting) have no government anchor and are disclosed honestly as editorially-researched, matching this site's existing precedent for Budget Travel and Luxury & All-Inclusive Travel.
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