Ocean cruise

Portsmouth eyes additional cruise capacity following £11.25m expansion

Additional infrastructure has been built to accommodate a forecasted growth in cruise demand in and out of the city

Virgin Voyages alters Scarlet Lady sailing due to engine maintenance delay

The line was forced to change the vessel’s upcoming itinerary after routine engine inspections ’took longer than expected’

More than 60 families to join travel's parent support network's first fun day

Back in Time For Bed’s inaugural event will be held on board Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas in Southampton

Agent secures £35k Scenic booking by capitalising on new docuseries

Karen Beagrie, head of operations at Meon Valley Travel, landed the booking after using Discovery’s new docu-series Maritime Masters: Expedition Antarctica, which was filmed onboard Scenic Eclipse

Virgin Voyages: ‘We have a very unique loyalty programme'

SJ Walker, director of sales at Virgin Voyages, explains everything you need to know about the line’s loyalty programme, The Virgin Voyages’ Sailing Club

Cunard to target new-to-cruise market ahead of Queen Anne launch

The line will encourage agents to offer Cunard as an alternative holiday option to customers who may have never sailed with the line or cruised at all

Oceania Cruises promotes Jason Worth to newly created sales VP role

Worth was previously vice-president sales and general manager for the Asia Pacific region of the brand

How Celebrity Cruises’ new boss went from ship cleaner to brand president

Laura Hodges Bethge’s journey to the top has been far from ordinary

Royal Caribbean to reshape trade strategy ahead of Icon and Utopia launches

Director of sales Stuart Byron tells TTG the line will reshape its agent programme to fit the needs of the trade in a post-Covid world

Carnival crew comes to rescue of couple stranded at sea in the Bahamas

The ship’s officers received a call from the US Coast Guard in the early hours of Monday (7 August) as they were less than nine miles away from the stranded sailboat

Ex-P&O partnerships chief Adam Blake to join Royal Caribbean

Speaking to TTG, sales director Stuart Byron hinted the line had plans to grow its sales team further following a restructure during the pandemic

Expedition cruise specialist reports record-breaking July

Polar Routes saw a 110% year-on-year increase in sales last month

Panache Cruises kick-starts US expansion with $124,000 booking

Founder and chief executive James Cole said the agency ’didn’t believe’ they had secured the booking in the first instance

Royal to deliver in-person training to 1,000+ agents over coming months

The line said the new initiative would be its ’biggest agent training initiative in recent years’

Hurtigruten to roll out new coastal-focused trade engagement programme

Following the separation of the brand’s expedition and coastal arms, the line’s vice president of sales and marketing EMEA and emerging markets Anthony Daniels tells TTG there is “an exciting opportunity” for agents working with the company

Norwegian Cruise Line offers ‘bonus’ commission in August

Agents can earn up to £100 extra this month when booking 2023 European cruises

Havila finally takes delivery of Polaris and Pollux following legal battle

The vessels were delivered to the line during a ceremony at the Tersan shipyard in Turkey

Bernard Carter leaves Oceania Cruises after nearly 20 years

As Oceania Cruises enters a "new phase of growth and evolution", Carter has taken the opportunity to focus on his personal goals

Seabourn takes delivery of second expedition vessel Pursuit

The line received the vessel Monday (31 July) during a handover ceremony in T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa

Saga's enrols first homeworking cohort and begins their training

New team of ’local travel advisors’ will have access to Saga’s product portfolio spanning short breaks, escorted tours, ocean and river cruises, as well as tailor-made and access to third-party product

Celebrity reveals major expansion to UK and Ireland sales team

The line has bolstered its ranks with six recruits joining during the summer

Sam Redfearn: 'We're going to make MyCruise one of the top agencies in the UK'

’We want to be up there fighting with the big boys as soon as possible,’ Redfearn tells TTG as Danish firm expands into the UK market

RCG praises 'travel partners' after setting new revenue record

President and chief executive Jason Liberty said the group has made ’positive strides’ towards narrowing the gap in popularity between cruise trips and land-based holidays

Royal Group upgrades earning forecast again off back of 'exceptional' demand

Strong ticket pricing combined with strength in onboard revenue for European and North America itineraries resulted record yields for the group