Cruise
Carnival Offers New Agents Marketing Initiative
Carnival Cruise Line has launched a new e-mail marketing initiative aimed at travel partners who are new to selling Carnival. The custom-created content provides a comprehensive overview of the line’s many tools and resources that agents can leverage to start selling with success. Designed as a one-stop shop to introduce new agents to Carnival, the five-part “Welcome to Fun” e-mail marketing program covers a range of topics, everything from maximizing the use of the line’s travel agent Internet portal GoCCL.com to details on the award-winning Carnival Passport travel agent...
Silversea Goes All-Inclusive in Asia
From the rainforests of Borneo to neon-lit Tokyo, the Far East offers intriguing ports, exotic cultures and breathtaking scenery that guests of Silversea may now conveniently explore with the cruise line’s all-inclusive package amenities, offered on all Silver Shadow Asia cruises in 2016. These packages include free shore excursions, free Wi-Fi, round-trip economy air travel and transfers, and a two-night, pre-cruise hotel stay. “Our goal is to make it as convenient as possible for our guests to experience a luxury vacation in the Far East by offering the most inclusive...
Princess, Cunard Enhance Air Booking Tool
Princess Cruises and Cunard Line are introducing new and enhanced features to Princess eZAir and Cunard CompleteAir, making airline travel easier to search, navigate and book for travel consultants. The new design – now live – offers agents improved functionality to select departure and return flights separately, add a stopover flight segment, easily compare real-time flexible and restricted fares and review more detailed schedule displays. “As a result of our continued commitment to innovate and support our retail partners, we’re pleased to add useful enhancements to...
Celebrity, MGM Deliver Deliver the Goods
Celebrity Cruises and MGM Resorts International have come together to give loyalty program members more ways to travel in style. Celebrity’s Captain’s Club and MGM Resorts’ M life members can choose from exclusive premium offers throughout the year. These include complimentary cruises for qualified M life Platinum and NOIR members, and Captain’s Club members can enjoy benefits and special access at MGM Resorts’ destinations, including concerts, events, entertainment venues, restaurants and more. “Aligning MGM Resorts with Celebrity Cruises, one of the top cruise lines in...
Viking Ocean Celebrates Float Out of Second Ship
Viking Ocean Cruises' second ship – the 930-passenger Viking Sea – was “floated out” last week, marking a major construction milestone and the first time that the new ship touched water. The traditional ceremony took place June 25 at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard – little more than a month after the new ocean line christened its first ship, Viking Star, in Bergen, Norway. Viking Sea is set to launch in early 2016; the company’s third ship on order, Viking Sky, is also currently under construction in Ancona and will debut in 2017. All three ships will sail popular routes...
Adventure Meets Luxury With PONANT
With a new focus on the North American market – including a recently launched partnership with Canada's Cruise Strategies Ltd. – a PONANT, Cultural Cruises & Expeditions official visited Toronto Wednesday to help get the word out on all that the line has to offer. Specializing in luxury expedition cruises, the French cruise line offers more than 200 departures to 81 countries touching all seven continents and is the number one cruise company in polar expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Helping increase PONANT’s presence in Canada, Cruise Strategies has been involved...
Quantum Sets Sail From Shanghai
Royal Caribbean International celebrated the arrival of Quantum of the Seas in Shanghai (Baoshan), China, this week, set to sail on three- to eight-night, roundtrip itineraries, year-round from Shanghai to North Asia destinations. The ship sailed a 53-night epic journey across the world from New York to Shanghai via the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, following its inaugural season at Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, N.J. and bringing the largest group of international cruise vacationers ever – up to 4,000 guests – to Shanghai. Government officials, port...
Softvoyage Sailing Into New Territory
Softvoyage is expanding into the cruise market with a new cruise booking engine scheduled to launch in the fall with Carnival Cruise Lines and MSC Cruises already onboard. Negotiations are also in the works with Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line. By connecting directly to the cruise lines' reservation systems, Softvoyage intends to enrich its cruise content and augment the number of cruise offers available for Canadian tour operators and travel agents using SIREV, and to online travel agencies using the company's business-to-consumer e-commerce solutions. Softvoyage CEO...