Cruise Travel

Carnival Cruise Line announced reservations are now open for the new Carnival Panorama, offering year-round, seven-day cruises from Long Beach, Southern California from December 2019. The 133,500-ton ship will become the first new Carnival ship deployed on the West Coast of the USA in 20 years.

AmaWaterways' newest ship, the 156-passenger AmaLea, set sail this week on her inaugural Tulip Time voyage.

TUI Group is expecting continuous strong growth in cruises for the coming years. The cruises segment is one of the group’s growth pillars. Therefore the TUI Executive Board has decided to increase capacities at TUI Cruises.

Crystal has renewed its Platinum Level Partnership with the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA).

Original Group, the leading Mexican expert of grown-up hospitality and creator of world-renowned collections, is taking its successful grown-up-centric, topless-optional hotel concept to sea with its first-ever Temptation Caribbean Cruise. The five-night voyage, which departs from Tampa on Feb. 13, includes calls in Mexico and Grand Cayman.

Following the success of the highly acclaimed “Frozen Planet in Concert” that was produced in partnership with BBC Earth, Holland America Line is debuting “Planet Earth II in Concert” on nearly all ships in the fleet.

Holland America Line is introducing Food & Beverage Aficionado Cruises in 2018 that showcase the talents of the members of its esteemed Culinary Council, Master Mixologist Dale DeGroff, and the premium line’s wine curator and winemaker partners.

Crystal River Cruises, the World’s Most Luxurious River Cruise Line™, welcomed Crystal Debussy to its award-winning fleet. The latest addition to the Crystal portfolio brings the river fleet to four luxury river ships since Crystal launched its river experiences in 2016.

Figures released by CruiseBritain show that the number of cruise passengers visiting Britain continues to rise for the tenth consecutive year. In the last decade, passenger day calls have quadrupled to reach 1.415 million including an increase of 17% over 2016.

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the cruise industry’s global trade organisation, announced a new three-year partnership today that is aimed at boosting the increasingly vibrant cruising industry in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Luxury cruise brand Cunard has announced its partnership with Rocky Mountaineer to offer passengers unmatched experiences in Alaska. Recently it was announced that the legendary Cunard experience will return to Alaska in 2019, for the first time in over two decades.

Holland America Line continues to develop deeply immersive experiences in the ports it visit, and through their partnership with FOOD & WINE, the cruise line has been able to craft exceptional new excursions that show the culinary side of these destinations in some very special ways.

Due to the continued increase in demand, TUI Group’s Cruises segment is planning to expand the segment by an additional newbuild of the Mein Schiff fleet.

With the highly anticipated return of Windstar Cruises to the scenic beauty of Alaska in May 2018 (after a hiatus of more than 20 years from sailing in the region) comes an agenda of larger-than-life adventures awaiting those boarding the 212-guest Star Legend.