When Will Cruising Resume? Here's Our Best Guess

When will cruising resume?
As the resident cruise expert at The Points Guy, I’ve been getting that question almost every day — via emails from readers, comments on stories and even Slack messages from colleagues.
It’s a question that’s top of mind right now for everyone from cruise line employees and travel agents, who are losing their jobs by the thousands as cruises remain on hold, to investors with stakes in cruise companies and cruise fans who are eager to get back to sea.
It’s also a question that’s almost impossible to answer.
As the editorial chief of the world’s biggest cruise planning site, Cruise Critic, put it to me recently, the new coronavirus is in control of the narrative right now — and how it drives that narrative in the coming months still is up in the air.