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Carnival's Cultural Targeting Controversy & Royal Caribbean’s $600M Gamble

Carnival's Cultural Targeting Controversy & Royal Caribbean’s $600M Gamble

Update: 2025-07-21
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Would you skip supporting local businesses for a day in a mega-resort with lazy rivers and infinity pools? Royal Caribbean’s $600 million “Perfect Day Mexico” project has locals in Costa Maya worried and cruisers buzzing.


This week, we unpack that development, Carnival's growing controversies over speaker bans and music choices, leading to charges of cultural targeting, and a heartbreaking story of a cruise passenger who lost his wife.

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Carnival's Cultural Targeting Controversy & Royal Caribbean’s $600M Gamble

Carnival's Cultural Targeting Controversy & Royal Caribbean’s $600M Gamble

Professor Melissa