{"id":1566,"date":"2017-04-10T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:45:55","slug":"more-cruise-ships-using-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/more-cruise-ships-using-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"More Cruise Ships Using Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We previously wrote about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-in-the-hospitality-sector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnival Cruises was rolling out beacons<\/a> on their cruise ships. MSC Cruises have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msccruises.co.uk\/en-gb\/About-MSC\/News\/MSC-Cruises-Launches-MSC-For-Me.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently announced<\/a> that they will also be using beacons as part of their &#8216;MSC and Me&#8217; technology to allow guests to track their kids, navigate the ship, receive messages and book activities.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mscbeacons.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1567\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The use of beacons in hospitality is currently an area ripe for innovation. Cruise companies seem to be one of the first, probably because a) beacons can impact on a large number of areas and b) the resultant data and opportunities for added value selling can be valuable to the companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We previously wrote about how Carnival Cruises was rolling out beacons on their cruise ships. MSC Cruises have recently announced that they will also be using beacons as part of their &#8216;MSC and Me&#8217; technology to allow guests to track their kids, navigate the ship, receive messages and book activities. The use of beacons in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/more-cruise-ships-using-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Cruise Ships Using Beacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}