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Restructuring Charges Restructuring Charges | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
Restructuring Charges [Abstract] |
Restructuring Charges | Restructuring Charges Pullmantur's strategy over the last several years had focused both on its core cruise market in Spain and on expansion throughout Latin America, especially Brazil. However, due to significant and increased challenges facing Pullmantur's Latin American operations, in 2015, we decided to significantly change our strategy from growing the brand through vessel transfers to a right-sizing strategy. This right-sizing strategy includes reducing our exposure to Latin America, refocusing on the brand’s core market of Spain and, consequently, reducing the size of Pullmantur’s fleet. During the first quarter of 2016, we moved forward with activities related to this right-sizing strategy. The activities included the closing of Pullmantur's regional head office in Brazil and the redeployment of Pullmantur’s Empress to the Royal Caribbean International brand. The closure of the Brazil office resulted in the recognition of a liability for one-time termination benefits during the first quarter of 2016. We also incurred contract termination costs related to this activity. As a result of these actions, we incurred restructuring exit costs of $0.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, which are reported within Restructuring charges in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We expect to incur additional restructuring exit costs of approximately $2.3 million, through the end of 2016, to implement our right-sizing strategy. The following table summarizes our restructuring exit costs related to the above strategy (in thousands):
|  | Beginning Balance January 1, 2016 |  | Accruals |  | Payments |  | Ending Balance March 31, 2016 |  | Cumulative Charges Incurred
Termination benefits |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 237 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 237 |  |  | $ | 237 |
Contract termination costs |  |  | — |  |  |  | 68 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 68 |  |  |  | 68 |
Other related costs |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Total |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 305 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 305 |  |  | $ | 305 |
In connection with this strategy, we incurred approximately $2.9 million of other costs during the quarter ended March 31, 2016 that primarily consisted of costs associated with the redeployment of Pullmantur's Empress to the Royal Caribbean International brand that were reported within Cruise operating expenses and Depreciation and amortization expenses in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We expect to incur additional other costs of $1.9 million, through the end of 2016, to implement our right-sizing strategy.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for restructuring and related activities. Description of restructuring activities such as exit and disposal activities, include facts and circumstances leading to the plan, the expected plan completion date, the major types of costs associated with the plan activities, total expected costs, the accrual balance at the end of the period, and the periods over which the remaining accrual will be settled. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 5.P.4) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27011515&loc=d3e140904-122747 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 5.P.3) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27011515&loc=d3e140864-122747 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6394359&loc=d3e17939-110869 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) -Number Topic 5 -Section P -Subsection 3, 4 + Details
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