Regent Seven Seas Cruises has appointed Caroline Smith as vice president of global marketing and James Arnold as the new global public relations director, effective immediately.  With more than 15 years of strategic brand management and communications experience, Smith will lead …

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The Mexican Caribbean continues its tourist reactivation with the arrival of new flight routes from different parts of the world. The Quintana Roo Tourism Board says this allows, despite the adversities, the consolidation of the state’s economic reactivation. Cozumel has three …

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The Cove at Atlantis has resumed operations. The 600-suite luxury property, which opened Feb. 11, joins The Reef, the Royal East Tower and Harborside Resort villas at Atlantis, which have already reopened. To celebrate, guests at the Cove who book …

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Royal Caribbean Group’s three cruise lines, Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises, will require crew members to receive the Covid-19 vaccine prior to returning to work on their ships. Royal Caribbean Group confirmed the text of a letter …

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Dear Amy: I am getting married this summer and was looking forward to having my best friend be my matron of honor. I was maid of honor in her wedding. Amy Dickinson  Right after I got engaged, she got pregnant …

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The head of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission encouraged the Biden administration and Congress to consider a limited exception to the Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA) while engaging the Canadian government to address the extension of its cruise ban into …

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BOSTON – Knowing that sales improve when travel advisors actually sail on the product they are selling, Emerald Cruises and Scenic Luxury Cruises Tours have announced a program to both reward the advisor’s sales efforts and let them experience what …

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“If you have love, you don’t need anything else,” wrote J M Barrie. An eternal truth; and yet a century on, in a world where so many of us have already been everywhere and done everything, there is huge pressure …

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The news spread quickly around Alaska’s port cities last week, through texts and emails and calls. After all the shocks of 2020, this still managed to sting: Canada was banning cruise ships again — not for another few months as …

Alaska’s canceled 2020 cruise season was devastating. Another one could be catastrophic. Read more »

Ultra-luxury cruise line Seabourn has unveiled its 2023 World Cruise and Grand Voyage. The 140-day “2023 World Cruise: Extraordinary Discoveries” on Seabourn Sojourn, and 79-day “2023 Grand Voyage: Grand Americas, Amazon Antarctica” aboard Seabourn Quest, offer two distinct voyages set to visit multiple continents and ports, …

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