{"id":6577,"date":"2026-09-23T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/23\/royal-caribbean-eyes-major-expansion-with-3-billion-stake-in-sandals-resorts\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:09:09","slug":"royal-caribbean-eyes-major-expansion-with-3-billion-stake-in-sandals-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/23\/royal-caribbean-eyes-major-expansion-with-3-billion-stake-in-sandals-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean Eyes Major Expansion with $3 Billion Stake in Sandals Resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Caribbean is reportedly close to finalizing a significant deal worth approximately $3 billion to acquire a 50% equity stake in the renowned Sandals Resorts chain. This strategic move would value Sandals at $6 billion and marks a major expansion for Royal Caribbean into the land-based vacation sector.<\/p>\n<p>The potential acquisition is part of Royal Caribbean&#8217;s broader strategy to diversify its offerings beyond cruises. While talks are ongoing, the deal could significantly bolster both companies&#8217; growth prospects.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/24\/royal-caribbean-near-3-billion-deal-to-take-50-equity-stake-in-sandals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Caribbean is reportedly close to finalizing a significant deal worth approximately $3 billion to acquire a 50% equity stake in the renowned Sandals Resorts chain. This strategic move would value Sandals at $6 billion and marks a major expansion for Royal Caribbean into the land-based vacation sector. The potential acquisition is part of Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108366446-17901057531790105751-48543568556-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1790105752&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108366446-17901057531790105751-48543568556-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1790105752&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}