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Experience Counts!
Master Cruise Counsellor
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I get calls and comments all the time about cruising and how it must be affected by the difficult economy over the past few years. While there have bee changes in buying patterns and timing overall the cruise lines have been very resilient as both the excerpt below from Maritime Matters indicates, but also the Cruise Line Industries Association has indicated with the occupancy rates.
Read More...No, not exporting or importing but interporting. On a cruise this means being able to board and disembark at ports along the intinerary rather then just the original departure port. It adds...
Read More...Based on our research and travel news, here are what we see as the hot sectors for leisure travel in 2012
Read More...MS EUROPA the only ship with a 5-star-plus award! When you think about the competition from Crystal, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, Siversea and others. This is quite an honor and to have the ship repeat it award with an even higher score that previous is quite the feat. Read on to get the details on how they rate the ships,
Read More...CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Cruise Planners/American Express, the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the cruise industry, once again raises the bar within the travel agent business by winning a total of seven coveted Magellan Awards from Travel Weekly. The awards honor the best in the travel industry and are bestowed upon travel organizations that represent the highest standards of excellence in hospitality.
Read More...In a 28 Sept 2011 article, partially extracted, Hotel Interactive discusses the return of tourism to Egypt and how if anything it is growing faster as tourists want to see the traditional sites but also the sites of the new history being written in Egypt.
Read More...This is a sign of good things to come back to Egypt. While the tour companies have started their tours upon lifting of the State Department warning, it is a much bigger deal when the cruise lines do so, given the amount of passengers they carry as well as the significant asset of the cruise ship. See the attached press notice.
Read More...Part of the news about the launch of the NCL's EPIC was that they would have over 120 solo/single cabins. Now Royal Caribbean Announced that they....
Read More...I just got back from Atlantic City and the Leisure World Travel show.
Read More...This is the press release that came out on 1 October. We will be there, even got quoted.
Read More...They are both great cities, but when you think about cruising, here are some areas that might factor into your decision.
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Among the industries that will be affected are the cruise lines sailing in the Gulf of Mexico. Admittedly they can avoid the spill at present unless docking in New Orleans or Galveston, and possibly soon....
Read More...Cunard announced this week they were implementing a fuel supplement charge....
Read More...I have written before about NCLs newest ship the Epic which is launching in July. The have 120 cabins which are for singles but
Read More...Carnival and Princess announced this week that they signeed an agreement to build two new 3800 Plus passenger ships to come on line 2012 and 2013. This is important because ....
Read More...Stole this quote from a fellow cruise planner Ms Wolf. She quotes Newsday from 17 January but it is her personal way of responding to the myth that travel agents are more expensive then on line, when in fact its the opposite. I added a challenge at the end.
Read More...Are you glad we made it through this decade? According to
Read More...There is lots of discussion on the travel groups about Cuba opening for travel by Americans from the USA, but...
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