Het zijn inderdaad schrijnende verhalen, maar helaas blijken ze wel waar te zijn. Zojuist (vandaag) onderstaand berichten gevonden op een amerikaans forum.
I recently received this email from my favoured US based cruise agent.
Quote-“ If you are a citizen of US or Canada, we can sell to you any cruise offer. Unfortunately, Celebrity,Costa,HAL,MSC, Oceania,Princess,RCL and Star Clippers now prohibit all US travel agencies from selling cruises to citizens of countries other than the US and Canada, unless they have a residence in the US or Canada.”
As an Australian citizen, I have made use of the internet over the past 10 years to find and compare the best fares available, and these are usually obtained through US agents.
These new rules will severly restrict our future cruise options.
I am angry.
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In hetzelfde forum ook deze:
We are able to offer the deeply discounted U.S. rates of most of the cruise lines we represent to citizens of other countries. However, the following cruise lines now prohibit all U.S. travel agencies (including Vacations To Go) from selling cruises to citizens of countries other than the U.S. and Canada, unless they have a residence in the U.S. or Canada. This is not a Vacations To Go policy or a U.S. government policy, it is a corporate policy instituted by each of these cruise lines.
Celebrity
Costa Cruises
Cunard
Holland America
MSC Cruises
Oceania Cruises
Princess*
Royal Caribbean
Star Clippers
Je kunt je natuurlijk gaan afvragen, waarom we hier zoveel meer moeten betalen en of het het juridisch geen belemmering is van vrij handels verkeer.
Haco