Cruise

Icon of the Seas arrives at homeport ahead of debut sailing

The world’s largest cruise ship will operate Caribbean itineraries calling into Royal’s private island – Perfect Day at CocoCay – in The Bahamas

A&K plans to launch new-build vessel on Nile next year

The luxury tour operator will add to its Nile-based river fleet in autumn 2025

Cruise sales surprise boosts Hays Travel’s ‘record-breaking’ Sunshine Saturday

Hays Travel completes a record-breaking day of sales in the first Saturday of 2024 with cruise bookings significantly up on the previous year

Oceania Cruises 'bakes' gratuities into cruise fare following agent feedback

The cruise line hopes the move to include gratuities in fares will provide more sales opportunities to ’valued’ travel agent partners in the UK and Ireland

Celestyal to move to year-round operations with new Persian Gulf programme

The line will operate seven-night Desert Days itineraries from Doha from 9 November

Former Crystal River Cruises boss joins SeaDream Yacht Club

Littlejohn joins the boutique luxury cruise line after finishing a long-term consulting agreement with Silversea Cruises

ECN releases new digital selling guide to boost agents' knowledge

The Selling Expedition Cruising: Wave 2024 guide is a live data document filled with offers and promotions

‘Eurovision partnership gives Royal huge appeal', says UK boss

Ben Bouldin, the line’s EMEA vice-president, decided to push for a partnership with Eurovision after failing to secure tickets to last year’s event

APT launches BDM recruitment drive following national account manager appointment

APT and Travelmarvel is currently recruiting for two BDMs following Robin Griffiths’ promotion and ahead of the departure of Koral Lipton

Royal Caribbean to partner with Eurovision Song Contest for 2024 and 2025

EMEA vice president Ben Bouldin said that the partnership will bring about “the very best of world-class live entertainment and fusion of cultures from all over”

Celestyal hires ex-Virgin Voyages trade marketing executive

Sebastien Pelisse will focus on working with the trade in the UK and Australia to deliver events and boost awareness of Celestyal’s brand and products

American Queen Voyages unveils new trade preview brochure

The digital brochure excludes pricing and a trade call to action so agents can send it directly to customers with tailor-made quotes and their own contact details

Rob Scott: 'The success of P&O Cruises is all down to agents'

P&O Cruises’ Rob Scott tells Harry Kemble about his plans to get the trade even more involved in the line’s future growth, and the partnerships helping to entice new customers

Explora Journeys aims first UK wave offer at new-to-cruise passengers

The line’s UK and Ireland managing director Antonio Paradiso said he was ‘hopeful’ the offer would attract ‘a new generation of guests’

Royal Caribbean trade team hits the road in support of wave push

Nicki Lewis, the line’s senior sales enablement manager, tells TTG what Royal has in store for agents over the coming weeks, and reveals vice-president EMEA Ben Bouldin will be part of the effort

Portsmouth port anticipates 155,000 cruise and ferry passengers in 2024

This year 90 ships will call into Portsmouth including Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Star

Celestyal renames onboard packages as it releases 2025 programme

The Greek Island specialist is also introducing a new port of call in 2025

Cruise Plus unveils trade booking incentives in biggest wave campaign ever

Worldwide Sale 2024/25 will feature ocean, luxury, river and expedition cruises as well as an “extensive array” of touring products

Town dubbed ‘UK’s cruise booking hotspot’ retains crown

Residents of one Hampshire town booked more cruises per head this year than any other place in the country

Carnival Corp enters 2024 in record booked position despite fourth quarter loss

Total customer deposits reached a fourth quarter record of $6.4bn, but the company reported a loss of $90 million for the fourth quarter

Celestyal to offer cruise-and-land packages with new partner

Celestyal and Olympic Holidays have partnered for the first time to offer a new programme of package holidays

Four issues that could stand in the way of another 'big year' for cruise

Cruise chiefs, speaking at the Clia Forum on Tuesday (19 December), are certain the sector is on the up – but urged agents to be mindful of several issues that could prevent them from the making the most of the rebound

Cruise 'quickly becoming hottest holiday ticket in town,' says Royal chief

Clia UK and Ireland chair Ben Bouldin laid bare the capacity challenges facing the sector, but predicted a positive year ahead when addressing the cruise body’s annual Forum on Tuesday (19 December)

Scenic Group reveals doubling in winter sales ahead of ‘biggest-ever’ peaks push

Scenic and Emerald Cruises’ trade sales for October to December 2023 have doubled compared to the same time last year as the brands reveal their strongest sales week of 2023