01 May 2026
Royal Caribbean: ‘We Have Turned the Corner’ on Europe Softness
Speaking on the company’s first quarter earnings call April 30, Royal Caribbean Group President and CEO Jason Liberty described what had been, at the start of the year, an exceptional setup for the company’s European deployments that then softened.
“If you kind of zoom out in the beginning of the year, demand from North Americans to go to Europe was really kind of off the charts,” Liberty said, “which is very much taken into our guidance.”
That momentum softened as the quarter progressed.