Canny cruisers who are quick off the mark can reel in some great bargains just now and enjoy a late summer sailing round the Med. Or it’s the perfect time to snap up a good deal on a Canaries cruise …
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Almost half of those belong to Viking River Cruises, whose newest route takes in the fertile French territory of the Bordeaux winelands aboard the Viking Forseti. As I boarded the new vessel at Bordeaux, I was astonished at how far …
. Some companies maintain strict no-refund rules, while other cruise lines claim to be more compassionate. Washington – Struck just as Ira Birnbaum and his wife prepared to set sail along Alaska’s scenic Inside Passage on Norwegian Cruise Line. “The …
With Cruise Holidays becoming a division of Vacation.com, agencies will transition from a franchise model to a licensee model, which will lower fees. The move may signal that the once novel cruise-only model of travel sales is on the wane. …
The recent release of a report on norovirus from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores what the cruise industry has known and communicated for a long time: The occurrence of norovirus on cruise ships is rare, and …
Cunard Line has canceled two sailings of the Queen Victoria, saying that a bearing on one of the ship’s propulsion units needs replacing before its world cruise departs on Jan. 20. The line has scrapped a 12-day Canary Islands cruise …
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Travel Leaders Group has decided to make Cruise Holidays a division of Vacation.com, a move that the company says will strengthen the franchise. “Because of Vacation.com’s sheer size and scope, [Cruise Holidays franchise owners] will be in a position to …
A senior Dubai tourism official on Wednesday said the emirate’s cruise sector will be transformed by a new law to bring in multiple entry visas. Hamad bin Mejren, executive director of business tourism at Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce …
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(12:04 p.m. EDT) – German bank KfW IPEX-bank has seized the 138-passenger Yorktown cruise ship, which has been operating in North America under Travel Dynamics International since 2012. The ship is now up for sale by the bank. No cruisers …
When there’s a tragedy on a cruise, it’s headline news. But that’s not always the case with cruise ship crime. Cruise lines are required to report all allegations of serious crimes to the FBI. The major cruise lines also post …
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