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Virgin Voyages: 'What a year we’ve had together!’
Virgin Voyages unveils 21 new ports of call for 2025 as it launches wave offer
The line’s wave offer includes a 70% second passenger discount and ’Bar Tab’ credit
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Hurtigruten and HX embark on next phase of rebrand
Hurtigruten Group unveils new websites, social channels and visual identities ahead of wave season
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Carnival Cruise Line ship rescues six men after cargo vessel capsizes
The search continues for the remaining crew members from the small cargo vessel which capsized near Dominican Republic
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Lionel Messi named 'icon' of Royal Caribbean's new ship
The player, widely regarded as the greatest of all time, will take part in Icon of the Seas’ naming ceremony next month
Carnival cruise brands cancel future Jetline Holidays bookings
Is cruise's pathway to low-carbon fuels becoming clearer?
Cruise lines admit there’s no silver bullet for eradicating the toxic gases ships discharge, so what is the solution? Harry Kemble investigates
11:30-12:10 – Think You Know P&O Cruises?
P&O Cruises makes 'largest-ever media investment' ahead of wave season
The line is launching a new campaign called Holiday Like Never Before on 18 December
AE Expeditions reveals B Corp ambitions in first impact report
AE Expeditions to expand educational programme next year following sales surge
Expedition line reveals plans to work more closely with the trade next year
Cunard's Queen Anne launches in May 2024
Bookings for existing Cunard ships ‘keeping up with Queen Anne sales’
Upcoming ship Queen Anne is ‘driving’ bookings, but sales levels for Cunard’s other vessels are ‘keeping up’, UK sales director Tom Mahoney has told TTG
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Princess Cruises reveals homeport for incoming Sphere-class ships
Star Princess will join Sun Princess in the Caribbean during the upcoming 2025/26 Americas season
Four Seasons Explorer will sail across Palau
Four Seasons Explorer relocates to Palau
The luxury catamaran is now anchored in the remote western Pacific nation of Palau, offering clients a range of experiences on land and at sea
Virgin Voyages: 'What a year we’ve had together!’
Virgin Voyages: 'What a year we’ve had together!’
SJ Walker, director of sales at Virgin Voyages, talks about the epic year the line has had, and looks forward to 2024
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Agent's cruise incentive car win 'means the world to my family'
Clubworld Travel’s Dawn McCaffrey scooped the grand prize in Royal Caribbean’s biggest-ever trade competition
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Princess targeting 'evolution not revolution' of its winning formula with Sun Princess
TTG joined a second shipyard tour of the first ship in Princess’s new Sphere-class this week to see how the built is coming along ahead of Sun Princess’s scheduled launch in February
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Windstar pledges millions to update all three of its Wind class yachts
The multi-million dollar initiative will take place over the next three years, the company has confirmed
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Agents promised first look at Princess Cruises' debut Sphere-class ship
Sun Princess will debut in February next year, and vice-president UK and Europe Eithne Williamson has said agents will be among the first to see it, hinting at additional trade sales support next year too
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With Celebrity Ascent, has Celebrity firmly placed itself in the premium market?
Celebrity Cruises president Laura Hodges Bethge believes the latest Edge-series ship can deliver the ’best premium vacation ever’
Claire Stirrup, Celebrity Cruises sales director UK and Ireland
Celebrity to target new-to-cruise agents with 'accessible' wave campaign
New-to-cruise agents will receive a £25 bonus payment from Celebrity Cruises every time they make three bookings during the wave season
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Oceania bolsters UK trade team with three appointments
Oceania said the new appointments came with bookings “stronger than ever”
Princess Cruises ‘ready to put more boots on the ground’ in the spring
Princess Cruises appoints new UK sales director following Nick Hughes's exit
Hayley Moore to step up to new role after she provided maternity cover for Princess across marketing and communications since January
Seabourn's expedition offer has seen 50% of new-to-brand customers.
Seabourn hails trade partnerships as 2024 set to hit company record for bookings
Seabourn reveals a record-breaking 2024 for bookings and stresses the importance of trade relationships
Torey Kings-Hodkin has joined Royal as head of key accounts
Torey Kings-Hodkin to join Disney Destinations as trade sales chief
Royal Caribbean’s head of sales will become Disney’s EMEA trade sales and marketing director early next year
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Celebrity unveils expanded educational programme with 1,000 agent places
The line is offering flights from Manchester and Gatwick in a bid to try and ease ongoing airlift issues, said EMEA vice-president Giles Hawke
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Celebrity boss vows to increase ex-UK capacity 'over time'
The line’s president Laura Hodges Bethge insisted the premium brand remained committed to the UK and Ireland market
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Celebrity Ascent will offer 'best premium vacation ever', says Celebrity boss
The fourth Edge-series ship was named in Miami on Friday (1 December) and will operate Caribbean itineraries in its debut season