{"id":120933,"date":"2026-08-19T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latecruisenews.com\/?p=120933"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:32:02","slug":"opinion-there-is-a-future-for-river-cruising-in-europe-among-historic-low-water-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/2026\/08\/19\/opinion-there-is-a-future-for-river-cruising-in-europe-among-historic-low-water-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: There Is a Future for River Cruising in Europe Among Historic Low Water Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption align left\" style=\"width: 305px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z1utG6RiFPM\" width=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"left\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b>RHINE HITS RECORD LOW<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I adore river cruising. I constantly recommend river cruises to viewers and followers, but for weeks, low water levels in Europe and their effect on river cruising have been all anyone has asked me about.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This video I took on the Rhine in early August illustrates the plain truth: river cruising is facing an industry-changing crisis due to climate change. For at least five years in a row, low water levels have disrupted high-summer river cruising.<\/p>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"https:\/\/openjaw.com\/newsroom\/cruise\/2026\/08\/17\/opinion-there-is-a-future-for-river-cruising-in-europe-among-historic-low-water-levels\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: There Is a Future for River Cruising in Europe Among Historic Low Water Levels <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RHINE HITS RECORD LOW I adore river cruising. I constantly recommend river cruises to viewers and followers, but for weeks, low water levels in Europe and their effect on river cruising have been all anyone has asked me about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-120933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-river-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}