Cruise
Princess Launches Online Honeymoon Registry
Princess Cruises is helping newlyweds enjoy the honeymoon of their dreams with a new online Honeymoon Wishes Registry. Couples can easily sign up at the line’s honeymoon registry page, select desired gifts to enhance their cruise vacation and share with family and friends. This feature allows couples to choose from a list of options they wish to enjoy on their honeymoon, from contributions to the cruise, drinks by the pool, specialty dining, relaxing spa treatments and shore excursions. All gifts are applied as an onboard credit to the couple’s stateroom account to use on board...
‘New’ Oasis of the Seas Debuts
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas has emerged from a 14-day drydock with a new look, including re-imagined dining, high-speed Internet, new retail offerings, a new Broadway show, new suites with exclusive suite dining and lounge. Sister ship Allure of the Seas will follow suit in May 2015 with nearly identical enhancements. A key element of any vacation, dining provides vacation-goers with the opportunity to experience new flavours and indulge in old favourites. Royal Caribbean’s Dynamic Dining allows guests to tempt their taste buds with more choice and flexibility than ever...
Carnival Introduces Training Podcasts for Agents
Carnival is introducing a new series of bi-weekly podcasts for travel agents, highlighting the line’s latest on-board product innovations and developments, everything from new children’s programming and entertainment to dining enhancements and itinerary trends. Hosted by Mike Julius, senior managing director of US trade sales, each 10-minute “Mike’s Mic” podcast will feature interviews with a variety of Carnival product experts and will be posted every other Friday on GoCCL.com, the line’s travel agent Internet portal. “One of the most popular topics of discussion our...
ALBATours Sailing in UAE, Oman
ALBATours has added itineraries in the United Arab Emirates and Oman to its cruise product portfolio, introducing packages out of Toronto this winter. Offering a total of six departures (Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 and Feb. 4, 11, 2015), these new 13-day/11-night packages start from $3,168 plus tax per person and include roundtrip flights to Dubai aboard Emirates, two nights pre-cruise touring in Dubai and area, nightly accommodation in a four-star hotel, breakfast daily, a seven-night cruise aboard the MSC Orchestra, a free wine package on the cruise, two nights post-cruise in Dubai, and all...
GLP Hosts Agent Seminars
GLP Worldwide Expeditions is offering agents an opportunity to hear the latest from three major cruise suppliers as well as learn about other key cruise and land products that it represents in Canada with a series of seminars. Agents who attend will automatically receive top tier commission for 12 months on the three cruise products featured in the presentations. Agents can register calling 1-866-760-1987 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Agents are asked to RSVP by Oct. 20 to secure a spot. “Niche cruises and river cruising are two of the hottest trends in cruising right now...
Costa Makes Its Choice
Costa Cruises has selected an Italian travel agent for the special Costa Diadema Christening event – http://www.costacruise.com/diadema -- that will take place on Nov. 7 in Genoa. More that 700 applicants from over 50 different countries entered the selection process to become the Costa Diadema's godmother, before Carolina Miceli from Palermo was chosen as the representative of Costa Cruises' values, according to her positive attitude and passionate work at her travel agency Tagliavia. As a travel agent she has become a true ambassador of Costa Cruises, offering the best cruise holidays...
Reality Check
In a major bid to boost its retailer base in North America, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has premiered a revamped, multi-level membership structure. And in this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press, Montreal editor, Mike Dunbar reports that the chief exec of the industry association says the dramatic move reaffirms the decades-long bond between cruise lines, travel agencies and agents at large. CEO Christine Duffy said the organization would have been working with travel agents ``under a certain membership model” for 40 years next year and needed to update...
Carnival In Tune With DJ IRIE
Carnival Cruise Lines has teamed up with legendary DJ IRIE – the official DJ of Carnival and the Miami HEAT who has entertained crowds from South Beach and Las Vegas to Paris and Brazil – to create Spin U, a new shipboard DJ academy exclusively for teens ages 15-17. Part of the line’s popular Club O2 teen program and inspired by DJ IRIE’s own Spin’iversity – a customized training program exclusively for developing Carnival’s shipboard DJs – Spin U is designed to provide aspiring spin-masters all they need to know about this emerging art form, from bringing a crowd to...