Artificial intelligence, the power of Amazon’s Alexa and the coupling of new technology with “big data” will revolutionize the way Cruise Planners agents run their businesses moving forward. This week, initial details were laid out for more than 600 travel advisors attending …

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A child’s fatal fall aboard a cruise ship a week ago appears to be an unusual accident, but it still may raise concerns about safety for potential passengers traveling with children. An 8-year-old girl – identified by local media as …

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By DON KOJICH Last week, I covered the first part of an 18-day Holland America Viking Passage cruise that my wife and I took recently. The trip began in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and made stops in Bergen, Norway, and Lerwick, …

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Mirror Travel’s renowned cruise columnist Captain Greybeard has died in a hospital in Hampshire after a short illness. He was 69. ‘Greybeard’ was the pseudonym of John Honeywell, the former Deputy Managing Editor of Mirror Group Newspapers, who left in …

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Luggage was being stowed on the ship as passengers trickled in after a night in Pittsburgh.  A tall, trim, 30-something man in uniform was helping to load the bags and making it look effortless, smiling while he worked. That happy …

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