With the onslaught of online booking and digital marketing directly by hoteliers, travel agents have been losing business over the years. As per a tourism consulting report by Statistic Brain compiling data from several sources, nearly three-fifths of all travel reservations are now finalized and paid for online. In stark contrast lies the sub-industry of cruise travel where still two-thirds of bookings are made using travel agents. Thus an upcoming cruise convention in the Canadian city of Vancouver is set to be a boost to the tourism industry. One of the largest cruise shipping companies, Royal Caribbean Cruises has managed to increase capacity by thirty five percent which can only mean good news for the industry as a whole.

Source: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/6/cruise-convention-set-put-wind-vancouver-tourism/