{"id":16830,"date":"2013-10-07T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/we-can-actually-own-this-market-says-silverseas-bettridge\/"},"modified":"2013-10-07T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:21:00","slug":"we-can-actually-own-this-market-says-silverseas-bettridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/10\/we-can-actually-own-this-market-says-silverseas-bettridge\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;We can actually own this market&quot; says Silversea&#8217;s Bettridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<br \/>By Tom Stieghorst<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<em><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Ellen Bettridge\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/uploadedImages\/All_TW_News\/Opinion_Buzz\/In_The_Hot_Seat\/2013\/EllenBettridge.jpg\" title=\"Ellen Bettridge\" vspace=\"3\">It  has been five years since Silversea Cruises launched its first  expedition ship, the Silversea Explorer. But in the last year it has  stepped up the pace, launching the Silver Galapagos this month and  announcing plans for a third ship, the Silver Discoverer, in 2014. In  one fell swoop, that ship will add more than 150 destinations to the  line&#8217;s catalog. Ellen Bettridge, who arrived 18 months ago as  Silversea&#8217;s president of the Americas, talked about Silversea&#8217;s  expedition fleet with cruise editor Tom Stieghorst<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Q: <\/strong><em>Why has Silversea expanded into expedition cruising?<\/em><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>A:<\/strong><\/span> We&#8217;ve had our Silver Explorer for five years now, and we&#8217;ve had great  success with her. She truly is an expedition ship, which has been what  encouraged us to purchase the Silver Galapagos. Expedition cruising is  just really hot right now, and especially when we can actually own this  market, because we have that luxury twist. So we believe this is a great  way to bring customers something that they&#8217;re really asking for.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/In-the-Hot-Seat\/Silversea-Cruises-Ellen-Bettridge\">www.travelweekly.com\/In-the-Hot-Seat\/Silversea-Cruises-Ellen-Bettridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Stieghorst It has been five years since Silversea Cruises launched its first expedition ship, the Silversea Explorer. But in the last year it has stepped up the pace, launching the Silver Galapagos this month and announcing plans for a third ship, the Silver Discoverer, in 2014. In one fell swoop, that ship will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silversea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}