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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Secures Over $2 Billion of Liquidity
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCL) announced it successfully secured over $2 billion of additional liquidity in response to affects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the company and the cruise…
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Palladium Hotel Group Unveils New Healthy and Safety Protocols
Palladium Hotel Group has shared its new health and safety protocols based off the instructions and recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the expert authorities of the six…
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Sea Cloud Spirit Delayed, Sailings Moved to Canary Islands
As a consequence of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Sea Cloud Cruises will put the new Sea Cloud Spirit into service later than planned. The 452-foot-long, three-mast, full-rigged ship is being…
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Cruise Planners Execs See Hope for Cruise Industry
Michelle Fee, CEO and founder of Cruise Planners, sees a “glimmer of hope” for the cruise industry’s resurgence. In a Q&A provided to Travel Agent by the agency, Fee notes…
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Windstar Cruises Updates Commission Policy, Adds Advisor Promotion
Windstar Cruises is making a change to its travel advisor commission policy, as well as announcing the return of a promotion for travel advisors for National Travel and Tourism Week (May…
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Pleasant Holidays, Journese Offer Bonus Trip Points
Pleasant Holidays and Journese launched a bonus TRIP points promotion in conjunction with National Travel & Tourism Week, awarding travel advisors 500 bonus TRIP points for each new booking made…
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Measles – Burundi
Burundi has been experiencing an increase in the number of confirmed cases of measles since November 2019. This outbreak initially started in a refugee transit camp (Centre de transit de…
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Sandals Resorts Sets Reopening Dates, Updates Safety Measures
Sandals Resorts plans to reopen all of its resorts (with the exceptions of the Bahamas resorts) on June 4 (this includes Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Turks & Caicos). Sandals’ Bahamas locations…
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100 Years of Flight Attendant Uniforms till Arrival of CoronaVirus and the Face Mask
Given the ubiquitous nature of air travel today, it’s hard to believe that in the 1920s the public was terrified of flying. (Americans preferred the train.)But everything changed in 1930,…
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Virgin Atlantic Cuts 3,000 Jobs, Shuts Gatwick Operations
Virgin Atlantic has announced it is to cut more than 3,000 jobs, representing one-third of its workforce, in the U.K. and end its operation at Gatwick Airport, according to The…