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Catch The Wave With Bahamas Paradise
Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line has unveiled its wave season offer for 2020, featuring a host of lead-generating discounts for travel advisors. Available now for sailings through June 30, 2020, advisors can offer sun-seeking clients the chance to escape to Grand Bahama Island or Nassau while enjoying 20% off relaxing spa treatments, specialty dining, Wi-Fi, a $20 onboard credit, five drinks for just $20, and kids sail Free. In addition to these perks, travellers who book the unique Cruise & Stay Program can extend their stay in paradise and receive $100 off per cabin. Travel...
Cunard Unveils Alaska Collection
Luxury cruise line Cunard has unveiled its Winter 2022 and Alaska 2021 collection of voyages, highlighted with the three Queens each sailing to world renowned locations, calling at 93 ports in 42 countries with 14 overnight stays. Flagship Queen Mary 2 will escape the cold in early 2022, sailing on a grand Caribbean and South American adventure; with options to depart from Hamburg, Southampton or New York. The voyage will commence with the most iconic of voyages, transatlantic crossing, before following the sun, taking in the Eastern Caribbean, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile....
Loyalty Rocks! With Carnival
Travel agents who rock by racking up points selling Carnival Cruise Line vacations have a new line of branded merchandise to choose from in the Loyalty Rocks! Program. Now, in addition to gift cards, jewellery, sporting goods and 16 other product categories, agents can shop in the Carnival Store and select a “Travel Agents Rock” watch or T-shirt when they redeem points accrued for selling Carnival. In the Loyalty Rocks! program, agents earn between five and 50 points per cruise booking made online, and more points can be accrued on higher stateroom categories and longer cruises....
Celebrity Recognizes Agency Excellence
It has been a transformative year for Celebrity Cruises, filled with awards and recognition, and now the cruise line is taking a moment to look back and show appreciation to the travel agencies and advisors who made it all possible. 2019 was marked by several significant milestones for Celebrity: The inaugural year of Celebrity Edge The launch of Celebrity Flora The unveiling of a new brand campaign And the dramatic modernization of Celebrity Millennium, Celebrity Summit and Celebrity Equinox as part of THE CELEBRITY REVOLUTION Dondra Ritzenthaler, senior...
Sneak Peek of New MSC Cirque du Soleil Shows
MSC Cruises has revealed new images of the new and original Cirque du Soleil at Sea shows exclusively on MSC Grandiosa. In COSMOS, Journey to the Unbelievable, guests experience a voyage across the galaxy with a brave astronaut on a quest for self-discovery. Audiences of EXENTRICKS, Expect the Unexpected, are caught off guard at every turn in this high-spirited spectacle. The new acrobatic performance “Ginger Rope” in COSMOS features three artists using a unique acrobatic apparatus developed specifically for the show. Aerialists fly gracefully in orbit on the rotating stage on...
NCL Recognizes Everyday Heroes
Norwegian Cruise Line hosted a celebration in New York City aboard Norwegian Bliss to honour the 51 winners of its Encore Moments Campaign, an initiative created to recognize and reward everyday heroes across Canada and the US for the positive impact they have on those around them. The winners, who were nominated for their selfless efforts, were treated to an afternoon appreciation event and award ceremony aboard Norwegian Bliss, NCL's newest ship to sail from New York City with seven-day cruises to Bahamas and Florida and 14-day voyages to the Caribbean. The nominees enjoyed a...
Carnival’s Mardi Gras Delayed, Eight Sailings Cancelled
Carnival Cruise Line is advising agents and booked guests that delivery of Mardi Gras will be delayed, with the first revenue sailing of the ship now being Nov. 14, 2020. With this new schedule, Carnival will now take delivery of the ship in late October and its first revenue sailing will depart from Port Canaveral on Nov. 14. Consequently, the first eight sailings that were scheduled starting Aug. 31 have been cancelled, including European, transatlantic and New York-based itineraries and four Port Canaveral itineraries. Carnival said that the guest notification process began...
Princess Vows To Break Record
Princess Cruises has introduced a second Valentine’s Day (West Coast) cruise departing from Los Angeles to Mexico, and is trying to break the Guinness World Records title for the largest multi-location vow renewal. Officiated by the very first Bachelorette couple Trista and Ryan Sutter, the ceremony will take place onboard MedallionClass-ship, Royal Princess, setting sail from Los Angeles Feb. 10-15 on a five-day, round-trip cruise to Mexico that includes an overnight stay in Cabo San Lucas, home of Lover’s Beach. The newly added Cabo San Lucas Getaway cruise coincides with the...