While most international travel has ground to a halt over the past year, it was the cruise industry that, very publicly, felt the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic near the beginning of the global crisis in early 2020. Who can forget those daily news dispatches in the first quarter, detailing passengers daily struggles as ships were stranded at sea for weeks at a time, while nations and ports grappled with healthcare protocols? For cruise-lovers, the industry s gradual voluntary shut-down by the second half of 2020 was devastating, though necessary but the good news is that it looks like cruises will be back this year, as soon as the summer, though only in select parts of the world and, well, there s a twist: this year, it looks like the hottest cruises will be. cruises to nowhere.