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Stats: Half of Cruise-Selling Advisors Changing Sales Mix
This is the second story resulting from our recent Cruise Outlook Survey, taken by cruise-selling travel advisors in early July. Readers can see the first article here. It’s been a challenging year for…
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Katarina Line Launches 2020 Season, 20 Percent Discount
Katarina Line, a Croatian small-ship cruise company with a fleet of 60 ships and weekly guaranteed departures, has announced the launch of its 2020 season following Croatia’s official reopening of…
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Atlas Ocean Voyages Now Including Air for All Cruise Bookings
Atlas Ocean Voyages is adding complimentary roundtrip air travel for all guests on all voyages as part of its all-inclusive, luxury cruise product, now billed as “All Inclusive, All the…
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Discover Your Italy New Small Group Tours for 2021
Discover Your Italy, a boutique travel outfitter, will begin offering a new line of small group tours in 2021, named “Our Italy.” The inaugural set of tours will begin embarking…
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Reinventing Resilience in Travel Hospitality Aviation
Conference Dates 21 July 2020, 9:00am – 3:00pm GMT Africa’s travel & tourism, hospitality and aviation sectors are facing challenges unlike we’ve ever witnessed before. Africa Tomorrow has been developed…
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Poor quality medicines putting the lives of pregnant women at risk
Good-quality medicines, given at the right time, can save the lives of pregnant and recently pregnant women and their newborn babies. New evidence synthesis reveals however, that in many health-care…
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Carnival Corp. Talks Liquidity, Ship Sales, Delayed Deliveries, Bookings and More
The world’s largest cruise company, Carnival Corporation (CCL) provided a business update to financial analysts on Friday—touching on fleet capacity, the sale of ships, delayed ship deliveries, liquidity, the phased…
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Key West’s Fantasy Fest Canceled Due to COVID-19 Concerns
The organizers of Key West’s Fantasy Fest costuming and masking festival announced this week that the 2020 festival, originally scheduled October 16-25, would be canceled to protect against the potential spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The festival typically…
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Royal Caribbean Group Acquires 100 Percent of Silversea Cruises
Despite a challenging economic era and global marketplace, Royal Caribbean Group (RCL) went “full throttle” this week and purchased all remaining shares of Silversea Cruises, an iconic ultra-luxury brand, which…
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WHO and partners to help more than 1 billion people quit tobacco to reduce risk of COVID-19
GENEVA — A new Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco aims to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. Stopping smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that…