Cruise

More than 150 Travel Counsellors celebrate their best-ever sales month

Cruise bookings now represent nearly 15% of all leisure sales at Travel Counsellors

P&O Cruises reveals how agents can bag their place at the Bafta Television Awards

The cruise line is giving away 25 pairs of tickets to Shine Rewards Club members through a social media competition

Disney Fantasy to sail ex-Southampton during summer 2025

Disney Cruise Line confirms UK deployment for next year

Five reasons agents should get excited about selling river cruise this year

TTG cruise editor Harry Kemble headed to the Clia RiverView conference in Amsterdam this week for a river cruise temperature check, and to see what the sector has in store for the trade

Royal Caribbean halts calls into Haiti private resort amid unrest

Attacks by powerful gangs on key government targets prompted the cruise line to monitor the ’evolving’ situation on the ground

Dnata B2B brand signs deal with emerging river line Viva Cruises

More than 400 UK travel agents experienced Viva Cruises ship Viva One at the Clia RiverView Conference this week

Uniworld boss tips UK to become line's top international source market

Uniworld president Ellen Bettridge said the UK has ’a good chance’ of taking the position from Australia which currently sits behind the US

River cruise still has a discounting problem, line's UK boss insists

Last year river cruise bosses raised concerns about pricing due to fears that cruise customers would not rebook when fare levels rose

What's coming down the river over the next couple of years?

Harry Kemble plots a course through the new ships and itineraries arriving in the river cruise sector during 2024 and 2025

Ambassador Cruise Line names agent Carly Bowkett as new BDM

Bowkett will be responsible for driving trade relationships in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland

APT sales chief encourages agents to grow with river line and operator

APT’s Brad Bennetts noted how selected Danube and Douro departures would be exclusively sold through the UK and Irish market

MSC Cruises to put 2026 ex-UK programme on sale this week

MSC Virtuosa will be based in the UK for summer 2026, sailing a range of two- to 14-night itineraries

Star Clippers to homeport in Grenada during 2025/26 winter season

Line will station one of its vessels in the Caribbean during winter 2025/26

Celebrity regional sales manager Peter Ryan to join Azamara

Ryan brings more than 25 years’ industry to his new role with Azamara, most recently as regional sales manager at Celebrity Cruises

A-Rosa names Michelle Daniels new UK and Ireland sales director

Daniels will join the trade-only river cruise specialist in April, reporting into managing director Lucia Rowe

Princess Cruises ‘ready to put more boots on the ground’ in the spring

Line reveals plans to grow its trade sales team in the spring before ‘completely relaunching’ its agent platform

Hurtigruten pauses expansion into West Africa owing to regional ‘instability’

Group’s expedition brand, HX, had previously added voyages to West Africa to its 2023/24 programme but these have been suspended

‘Significant stake’ in AmaWaterways sold to US private equity firm

The river line’s founders will retain ‘meaningful ownership’ of the company despite the investment by L Catterton

Royal Caribbean names Aaron Langford new sales director UK&I

Langford named Royal Caribbean International senior sales director UK and Ireland, while Nicki Lewis has been promoted to sales enablement director for Europe, Middle East and Africa

Explora Journeys chief executive to leave line after five years

Michael Ungerer to depart for personal reasons, but will advise the brand through to the end of August

APT to launch two new ultra-luxury river ships next year

Solara and Ostara will sail some of APT’s most popular European itineraries, starting in March next year

Barrhead's Gary Speirs joins APT as BDM north, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Speirs takes over from Koral Lipton, who left APT for Explora Journeys this week

Mundy Adventures pins surge in expedition cruise sales on training push

Cruise specialist’s expedition cruise sales have more than doubled since the start of the year thanks to its Polar Pioneer programme

P&O Cruises to offer more than 1,000 agent ship visit places this year

Agents will be invited to spend time onboard several of P&O’s newest ships this year, including taking a tour of the cabins and sampling dining options