Cruise
Encore enhances ‘Best Value’ program
Encore Cruises is advising agents that it has enhanced its highly successful "Best Value"program, which now not only includes NCL, but Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises as well. The program provides clients with prepaid gratuities on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas all year long for all 2013 sailings in select categories. This same offer will apply to Celebrity's Silhouette and Reflection for winter 2013 Caribbean sailings and to NCL's Pride of America for all 2013 sailings....
Paul Gauguin marks PEARLS annniversary
Paul Gauguin Cruises is celebrating the first anniversary of its PEARLS Accredited Partner Program with the release of a new chapter on The Moana. PEARLS partners receive access to resources including exclusive sales and marketing trainings, advance notice of special promotions, shipboard credit offers, marketing tools, and bonus commissions. To mark the first anniversary of PEARLS, a new chapter in the program on The Moana is now available covering the ship's features, distinctions, itineraries, and destinations. Since the program began, 910 travel partners have graduated becoming official...
Transat sets sail in 2012
Transat Holidays has set sail with the launch of its new 2012-2014 Cruise Collection brochure. The tour company continues to expand its cruise offerings, featuring such lines as Azamara Club Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Louis Cruises, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Pullmantur, Royal Caribbean International, Star Clippers and Uniworld River Cruises. Denis Codere, vice-president, sales, commercialization and development, Europe and Cruises, Transat Canada, observed: "Transat Holidays offers vacationers an extensive array of cruises...
Cunard introduces Cunard CompleteAir program
Cunard Line is getting set to launch Cunard CompleteAir, an online flight booking tool designed for travel agents. Debuting Aug. 15, the program will provide competitive, real-time-pricing for flights available at voyage booking, and will track availability for flight schedules that work with the voyage itinerary. Cunard CompleteAir features include immediate confirmations on preferred airlines, routes and flight times, as well as booking flexibility between approximately 320 days and four days prior to travel. Travellers may also view flights in their Voyage Personaliser, and experience...
Uniworld showcases new destination, new itineraries
A new destination, new ships and new itineraries are all a part of Uniworld Boutique River Cruises' additions for 2013 and 2014. In 2013, Uniworld will be the only North American river cruise line to offer river cruising in Italy, along the Po River and the Venice Lagoon. The Splendors of Italy combines a seven-night river cruise along the Po River and the Venice Lagoon with a two-night land stay in Florence and three nights in Rome. For those travellers who only wish to do the cruise portion, Uniworld will offer a cruise-only option for eight days, Venice & the Po River. Other new Europe...
Silversea set to enhance guests’ sleep experience
Silversea guests will soon find their sleep experience elevated to a new level of comfort and luxury with the debut of Pratesi custom-made bed linens. Founded in 1860 and renowned for creating masterpieces in linens for the Italian and European aristocracy, the legendary Italian linens firm is bringing its high-quality and stylish creations to the beds in every Silversea suite beginning with the Sept. 3 voyage of Silver Spirit, followed by Silver Cloud in November. Pratesi bedding will then be rolled out to the rest of the Silversea fleet in 2013. The plush new bedding collection, which...
Costa sets sail with sustainable project
The Sustainable Cruise waste-management project co-funded by the European Commission through the LIFE+ Program, the European Union's funding instrument for environmental projects, is under way aboard Costa Pacifica. The project seeks to stimulate implementation of the EU directive on waste on board ships and create incentives for waste reduction, recycling and reuse. Ernesto Gori, Costa Cruises vice-president, quality standards compliance and auditing, said: "We are very proud to be managing this highly innovative project on board Costa Pacifica, which will be the pilot ship for new models of...
December cruising with Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin Cruises is offering two 7-night Tahiti & the Society Islands voyages on The Gauguin providing the perfect way to celebrate December holidays. Both sailings feature special savings of 50% off standard cruise fares plus included airfare from Los Angeles. On The Gauguin's Dec. 22, 2012, voyage, guests can enjoy a "White Christmas" on French Polynesia's white-sand beaches, or they can ring in the New Year on the South Seas in style during the Dec. 29, 2012, sailing. Both Tahiti & the Society Islands holiday voyages cruise roundtrip from Papeete, Tahiti, visiting Raiatea and Taha'a,...