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Watch: MSC Cruises scores global cruise partnership with Chelsea

The multi-million pound deal includes pitchside advertising, marketing and hospitality experiences for trade partners

Carnival Radiance to sail in Europe during first season

The line also cut the steel for its first 5,200-passenger Excellence-class vessel last week

MSC reveals new Bellissima venues 100 days before launch

The ship will feature digital cruise assistant Zoe and a new tapas restaurant, HOLA! Tapas Bar, from Michelin-starred chef Ramon Freixa

Fred Olsen reports record Monday sales

The line claimed sales of almost £1.6 million earlier this week

Win flight to edge of space with the ‘most adventurous agent incentive ever’

Norwegian Cruise Line is offering the “once in a lifetime” prize

Holidaysplease franchise to launch new brand

The Holiday Franchise Company follows the creation of The Family Holidays Franchise in 2016

Disgraced travel agent Rita Hunter jailed for fraud

Some of Hunter’s victims turned up at hotels only to find they hadn’t been booked in despite their money having been taken

Wizz Air to open Krakow base; adds new UK routes

Flights from Luton and Doncaster Sheffield to Poland’s second city will start in next April

Hays to open nine new stores in three months

The expansion takes the agency chain’s total high street presence up to 180 branches

Travel leaders give cautious welcome to May's 'imperfect' Brexit deal

Draft withdrawal agreement would ’offer positivity’ ahead of January peaks

Could Iata move to weekly BSP payments after Omega Travel failure?

A travel lawyer has said the collapse of Omega mirrored that of AirFastTickets in 2014, which saw Iata reduce its BSP payment window from monthly to fortnightly

Emirates signs up to Worldwide by EasyJet connections platform

EasyJet and Emirates’ said the agreement was a natural fit given their respective presences at Gatwick airport

Vision Cruise targets new to cruise customers with Amazon tie-in

Vision Cruise claims to be the first cruise travel company to launch a “skill” - a voice interaction - compatible with Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa

Celebrity eyeing 'up to 800 agents' for ex-UK Apex sailing

The Edge-class ship’s mini ex-Southampton season will lead the line’s largest ever UK and Ireland deployment programme in 2020

EasyJet to relaunch holidays division next year after ‘radical’ overhaul

The airline says its EasyJet Holidays proposition will leverage its existing passenger base to challenge across the beach, city and ski sectors

Hurtigruten ‘to fuel ships with dead fish’ amid biogas and LNG revolution

The line is aiming to convert at least six of its ships to run on biogas and liquefied natural gas by 2021 and install battery packs designed to store renewably sourced energy

EasyJet ‘close to achieving majority EEA ownership’ ahead of Brexit

In its full year results, the budget airline revealed it is aiming to ensure more than 50% of its shares are held outside the UK ahead of Brexit

Omega Travel collapse 'cost creditors at least £20m' say liquidators

An ‘urgent’ investigation is under way to recover cash the flight consolidator, which collapsed in September, owed creditors

Comment: What the Brexit withdrawal agreement means for travel

Travlaw partner Farina Azam on what Theresa May’s Brexit deal could mean for travel - and what still needs to be done to reassure the industry

Feefo founders Mabbutt and Eames leave the business following MBO by chief revenue officer

Feefo’s chief revenue officer Matt West has led the buyout and becomes chief executive

Airlines 'hoodwinking' passengers with seat allocation algorithm – minister

Margot James said families were too often being unfiarly split up and charged to sit together

See huge storm waves lash coastal resorts in Canary Islands

Footage circulating on social media shows the waves tearing railings from apartment balconies

Government ‘let down’ families of Sousse terror attacks

Campaign group Survivors Against Terror will this week publish a report detailing some 270 interviews with people involved in, or affected by, overseas terror attacks

Stansted capacity boost green lit

The airport, which currently handles around 27 million passengers a year, has been given permission to extend its permitted passenger limit from 35 million a year to 43 million