Thursday September 18
Your weekly digest is back as we look back on another week of cruise...
Our colleagues at CLIA have been busy crunching numbers and have revealed that the global industry is worth $117 billion, and has seen a growth of 77% in 10 years - what an incredible industry! Read more here. Meanwhile it was also revealed this week that spend in UK ports has grown by 10% - great news for our economy and local port communities. Read more here.
Over at Holland America Line and the ship yard as it builds its new Pinnacle Class ship - they have finally given it a name - Koningsdam (it means King in Dutch!) - read more here.
At Carnival Corporation it has been quite a week for the top team. Congratulations to David Dingle promoted to Chairman, and similar congratulations to David Noyes promoted to Chief Executive. Read more here.
Great to see expansion continuing within the river cruise industry - this week we saw the announcement by Ama Waterways of two new ships - AmaPrima and AmaReina both of which will sail on European waterways in 2015: read more here.
Over at MSC Cruises the excitement this week was around MSC Armonia as it became the first of 4 MSC ships to be stretched so that additional rooms and public spaces can be added to the fleet - read more here.
Of course we are now in the final run towards CLIA Cruise Week (starting Sep 27), here Travel Weekly reports on how new agency FlexiCruise are launching ahead of the week's promotional activity - read more here - whilst TTG talks to CLIA UK & Ireland Chair Jo Rzymowska on the importance of Cruise Week - read more here.
And we were delighted to be back in the news this week with our big announcement on Selling Cruise Conference 2015 to be held in Southampton on-board Anthem of the Seas, Britannia and Royal Princess! An amazing line-up so do save the dates - read more here.
Finally - what better way to end this week's blog than a nod to Princess Cruises who introduce their own beer to Regal Princess this year! Thirsty work this cruise industry! Read more here.
Wednesday 17 September 2014
Thursday 4 September 2014
Thursday September 4 2014
It has been a week dominated by the purchase by Norwegian Cruise Lines of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises - a $3 billion purchase that has secured Norwegian two cruise lines!
There is inevitably a lot of comment and news surrounding the deal, including this Travel Weekly interview with the Norwegian boss Kevin Sheehan in which he indicates that a UK based ship from the group is now on the cards - read here.
Sheehan also says: "Norwegian has gone from being a joke in this industry to the best in class in terms of yields, operational profit and onboard spend."
MSC meanwhile have been launching their new booking platform MSC Book to a short list of travel agent partners, and will roll out the new technology more widely in due course: read here.
Staying with MSC it was off for a major refit this week for Armonia as she is increased in size and refurbished as part of their 'Renaissance' programme: read here.
Of course last week we talked a lot about Quantum of the Seas launching in October - Royal Caribbean are clear that they are relying on travel agents to spread the word: read here. And here is an article on TTG on that ship visit from last week to see Quantum and Anthem: read here.
Finally this week it was great to see the CLIA UK & Ireland River Cruise Convention being covered by Travel Weekly - the event held on Nov 16 & 17 will showcase the sector to member travel agents: read here.
There is no weekly update next week, but we are back the week after!
It has been a week dominated by the purchase by Norwegian Cruise Lines of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises - a $3 billion purchase that has secured Norwegian two cruise lines!
There is inevitably a lot of comment and news surrounding the deal, including this Travel Weekly interview with the Norwegian boss Kevin Sheehan in which he indicates that a UK based ship from the group is now on the cards - read here.
Sheehan also says: "Norwegian has gone from being a joke in this industry to the best in class in terms of yields, operational profit and onboard spend."
MSC meanwhile have been launching their new booking platform MSC Book to a short list of travel agent partners, and will roll out the new technology more widely in due course: read here.
Staying with MSC it was off for a major refit this week for Armonia as she is increased in size and refurbished as part of their 'Renaissance' programme: read here.
Of course last week we talked a lot about Quantum of the Seas launching in October - Royal Caribbean are clear that they are relying on travel agents to spread the word: read here. And here is an article on TTG on that ship visit from last week to see Quantum and Anthem: read here.
Finally this week it was great to see the CLIA UK & Ireland River Cruise Convention being covered by Travel Weekly - the event held on Nov 16 & 17 will showcase the sector to member travel agents: read here.
There is no weekly update next week, but we are back the week after!
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