{"id":3058,"date":"2011-04-05T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2018-01-21T19:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:45:56","slug":"the-rapid-growth-of-the-river-cruise-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/2011\/04\/the-rapid-growth-of-the-river-cruise-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rapid Growth of the River Cruise Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2950\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2950\" href=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vls_ext_danube-e1320540030754-480x315.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2950\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2950\" title=\"Viking Longships - Exterior\" src=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vls_ext_danube-480x1731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Viking Longships will be an entirely new class of river cruise vessel. Illustration courtesy of Viking River Cruises<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unlike deep-ocean cruises, the modern river cruise industry largely didn\u2019t exist 30 or even 20 years ago. Privately owned and operated river ships were available to those wanting to sail down the Main or Danube, but these could be prohibitively expensive and were almost always operated on barge-style ships holding just a handful of passengers \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/abcs-of-river-cruising\/the-rapid-growth-of-the-river-cruise-industry\/\">more<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike deep-ocean cruises, the modern river cruise industry largely didn\u2019t exist 30 or even 20 years ago. Privately owned and operated river ships were available to those wanting to sail down the Main or Danube, but these could be prohibitively expensive and were almost always operated on barge-style ships holding just a handful of passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}