Heading back north, passengers would cruise towards Chile, across the Pacific to Easter Island, Pitcairn Island and French Polynesia. From here the ship will move on towards Tona, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Australia then onto Asia. Guests will stop in Indonesia …
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Smart Travel Group has announced the promotion of several team members. Effective immediately, Amber Blecker has been named manager of sales and product strategies for Smart Travel Group, Kameish Stanley has been named vice president of marketing for Smart Travel …
Q: I had to cancel my honeymoon trip to Sugar Bay Resort and Spa in St. Thomas a few days before my departure in October because of Hurricane Irma. I had booked the package through Travelocity. It included round-trip airfare …
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Royal Caribbean International is planning to go big in the Miami short cruise market, adding two ships that are respectively bigger, and much bigger, than the ones that it sails to the Bahamas now. The 3,114-passenger Mariner of the Seas …
Expedition cruise lines made a pair of big announcements this week. Lindblad Expeditions reports that it is naming its new polar expedition cruise ship the National Geographic Endurance. The cruise line has laid the keel for the new vessel, which …
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One trend delivering more revenue to the travel agency bottom line is the fast-paced growth in multigenerational family travel. In fact, Virtuoso cites “multigenerational travel” as its top 2018 luxury travel trend. Certainly, family travel on the world’s oceans is …
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The cruise and packaged travel segments have key similarities that separate them from other areas of the industry. For one, the nature of travel is entirely leisure-focused, and two, traditional partners such as travel agents are the most important distribution …
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