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Raise Your Sales with Virgin Voyages
Last chance to register—Baxter Media invites you to attend Virgin Voyages' webinar, Raise Your Sales with Virgin Voyages. The webinar takes place today, Jun 20, 2023, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Attend for your chance to win a Virgin Voyages prize bag, which includes a bottle of Moet champagne and a $100 gift card. Get the latest details on why Virgin Voyages won the Cruise Critics Cruisers Choice Award in all cruise categories for 2023. See where all four lady ships will be sailing in the coming years and how you can leverage their compelling commission and new LetsGoBook...
Royal Caribbean’s Holds An ‘ICONic’ Event
Royal Caribbean hosted an eastern GTA travel agents to an ICONic Training Event this week at Angus Glen Golf Course. Agents were presented with an extensive overview on all the new developments at Royal Caribbean including the new Icon of the Seas.. Seen here, from l to r, are Royal Caribbean’s Kat Vezina, Maria Gibson, Lisa Connell, Mitchell Merucci and Nate...
TDC Sets Sail With Scenic Group
Transat Distribution Canada (TDC) gave a group of owners and travel professionals from its network the opportunity to discover Scenic Group’s luxury fleet, as part of an exclusive familiarization trip. The TDC team went from river to ocean as they sailed on the “Gems of the Danube” itinerary, and were first the exclusive Canadian agency to experience Scenic Eclipse II. The group was welcomed aboard the Scenic Amber, where Juna Ueda, GM Sales for Scenic Group Canada, hosted the team. The seven-night luxury river cruise embarked from Nuremberg and travelled along the majestic...
Celebrity Cruises Reveals Celebrity Ascent Details
Celebrity Cruises has unveiled details about what travellers can expect to experience on board its newest ship, Celebrity Ascent, once it launches this November. Celebrity Ascent is the cruise line’s fourth Edge Series ship and it will be based in South Florida for the 2023-2024 Caribbean season. Cruising out of Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale from December 2023 to April 2024, the new ship will transport guests to Caribbean destinations that include the Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, and the British Virgin Islands, before departing to Europe for a summer of Mediterranean...
MSC Cruises, MSC Foundation, NatureMetrics Partner Of Project
MSC Cruises and MSC Foundation have announced a partnership with NatureMetrics with the primary goal of the project to collect comprehensive biodiversity data for marine species using the innovative technique of DNA sampling. The “eBioAtlas: Biodiversity Sampling from Cruise Liners using eDNA” project will see eDNA from seawater while on-board collected and sent to NatureMetrics for analysis, allowing the team to discover and record the marine wildlife present across MSC cruise routes. The project has global reach with the data contributing to the eBioAtlas, a global program by...
Uniworld Sailing The Rivers Of The World
Uniworld Boutique River Cruises kicked off its inaugural Rivers of the World trip in Cairo, completing the first segment of the 46-night journey. The itinerary is the first of its kind for Uniworld, taking guests to nine countries aboard five luxury Super Ships combining both cruise and land. It features exclusive experiences and surprises throughout, such as the opportunity to visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum before it officially opens to the public and a welcome celebration hosted by a surprise guest, Uniworld’s President & CEO, Ellen Bettridge. Said Bettridge:...
AmaWaterways Signs On As BranchUp Preferred Supplier
BranchUp has recently added AmaWaterways as a preferred supplier to its social media marketing program. Michael Drever, BranchUp founder, said: “We are thrilled to feature AmaWaterways as a preferred supplier on our platform for travel professionals both in Canada and the U.S.” Drever continued: “As a leading river cruise line and trusted partner for travel advisors, the company puts a major focus on providing inspirational content and promotional offers to their travel partners, and their participation in BranchUp is another tool to building successful partnerships that...
Leno Named Godfather To Carnival Venezia
Carnival Cruise Line has announced that late night talk show host and comedian Jay Leno will serve as its first ever godfather to one of its ships, Carnival Venezia, at a celebratory event on June 14, 2023 when the ship is blessed and enters service from New York City. The ship is the first to incorporate “Carnival Fun Italian Style” that adds Carnival’s signature fun to the beautiful Italian theming of the vessel. In addition to serving as the Godfather, Leno will perform a special comedy show exclusively for Carnival’s event guests, in partnership with Carnival® World...