FOMO driving record demand for Regent Seven Seas

Early cruise bookers and past passengers are snapping up capacity on Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ ships for 2022 with inventory sold so far on the luxury line approaching the 50% level.

In an update to media yesterday in Sydney, Steve Odell, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Regent Seven Seas Cruises, said there continues to be “huge pent-up demand” for luxury cruising, with the company seeing record numbers of bookings for 2022 and 2023.

Reiterating his comments to LATTE last month, Odell said he believes there is “quite a lot of FOMO” among cruisers due to the shortage of availability. That shortage is driven by guests rebooking after their planned cruisers in 2020 and 2021 were scuppered by the coronavirus cruise pause.

“I think the luxury traveller in particular has developed this FOMO mentality when they’re starting to look at their plans for the future, for next year.”

Odell said Regent has just recorded its largest ‘wave season’ (the period from January to March) ever, with a focus on sailings in 2022 and up to May 2023.