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misscherry - // Congrats! Out of interest, how do you go about finding speaking opportunities like that? //
The major cruise liner companies, in my case Carnival, are always on the lookout for speakers for their cruises.
You have to apply to them with your expertise, and offer the sort of Talk(s) they may be interested in.
If they are interested, you are invited to deliver half of forty-minute Talk at their Southampton HQ in front of other auditionees, usually around eight, and a panel of Carnival staff who employ Speakers.
If you are successful, you join the panel. and they offer you a contract for a cruise where they think your subject will fit for the passengers travelling at that time.
It's taken me nearly two and a half years to finally get a cruise offer - I was down for a cruise to Portugal last April, but it was pulled five days before sailing because of Covid.
But I am now down for a cruise in September on Britannia, I can't wait!!