It was the event the cruise industry had been awaiting and dreading with equal measure. Last Tuesday, the mangled wreck of Costa Concordia was finally raised after a 19-hour, $800 million salvage operation that put the stricken ship back in …
September 30, 2013 By: C. Elliott Mest Travel Agent Carnival Corp. vice chairman Howard Frank conducted an earnings conference call with financial analysts last week, reporting that Carnival’s third quarter 2013 earnings fell 30 percent over the same period one year …
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Cruise Planners-American Express Travel “The World’s Largest Cruise event is a great opportunity for travelers to benefit from deals that can’t be found anywhere else,” said Vicky Garcia, COO of Cruise Planners–American Express Travel. Coral Springs, FL (PRWEB) September 30, …
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By Julie Peasgood PUBLISHED: 05:51 EST, 29 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:51 EST, 29 September 2013 We are moored on the Irrawaddy, just minutes from the revered Strand Hotel in Yangon (it used to be called Rangoon). Larger vessels have …
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Nosy capuchin monkeys, cashews ripening on trees, crocodiles pretending to be logs and logs pretending to be crocodiles, flashes of blue morpho butterflies in the forest, tiger herons stalking iguanas, noisy howler monkeys, hibiscus and ginger flowers growing wild, frigate …
INSIDE PASSAGE, Alaska — It was cold and wet as we stood on the bow of the Sea Lion cruise boat. We were idling off the coast of Chichagof Island in southeast Alaska. Earlier, a pod of humpback whales had …
Carnival Corp. and the port of Barcelona reached an agreement on the construction of a new $27 million cruise terminal that will handle post-Panamax sized ships. The terminal will be about 107,000 square feet, large enough to accommodate 4,500 people. …
Waterloo Region Record MANDALAY, Myanmar — After closing its doors to the West for half a century, Myanmar has reopened, inviting all to come and discover its treasures, ancient palaces of kings long gone, legends and mysteries told in stone. …
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Over the past two decades, art auctions on cruise ships have become big business. The idea of sipping free champagne while taking in art work that some auctioneers tout as museum quality attracts thousands of passengers year after year. But …
By Travelmail Reporter PUBLISHED: 05:33 EST, 26 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:33 EST, 26 September 2013 Protests about how close cruise ships sail to the historic city of Venice have been steadily increasing for months. Now the cruise industry has …
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