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Cruise Weekly today Cruise Weekly today features targets Aussie cruisers three pages of all the latest EXCLUSIVE cruise industry news. VIRGIN Voyages CEO Tom McAlpin this morning announced a new partnership with Travel The World (TTW), which will see the fledgling cruise line’s innovative product become available On location at through travel agents in Australia. Cruise360 The move was unveiled at CLIA’s Cruise360 conference, with McAlpin telling Cruise Weekly Today’s issue of CW about his vision for the line which Scarlet Lady will be based in the Gold Coast. is coming to you from has the tagline “An Epic Sea , undertaking four- & five- Australian agents will be able to Cruise360 in Sydney, Change for All”. night itineraries in the , register from next month, with courtesy of Cruise Lines Although only carrying and a key difference is that trade NZ to follow soon after. International Association passengers 18 and over, there’s partners will receive a base Consultants interested in (CLIA) Australasia. no particular demographic being commission of 10% on the entire working with the line can call HUNDREDS of cruise line targeted, with Virgin Voyages transaction - plus an annual 6% 1300 857 037 or email executives, travel agents instead focusing on a particular bonus if targets are met. [email protected]. and industry suppliers mindset of cruisers who have a A training roadshow will kick McAlpin is pictured centre have gathered today for “zest for life” and are “young at off in Oct, with TTW and Virgin with Andrew Millmore, Travel the biggest ever Cruise360 heart”. Voyages visiting agents in The World and Virgin Voyages Australasia conference. “Everything we do is about Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Director of Sales, Shane Riley. More than 600 participants being different,” McAlpin said, are taking part in the sold from interactions with passengers out event, which is themed (“Sailors”) through to dealing #NextGeneration. with travel agents (“First Mates”). Key attendees include CLIA RIVERNotes Virgin Voyages has four ships AUGUST 2019 Global Chair Adam Goldstein heading a range of top on order, with the first, the Uniworld’s experiences, highlights speakers, plus a trade show 2,750-guest Scarlet Lady, set to for cruise industry exhibitors. embark on her first commercial & latest updates for August 2019. voyage on 01 Apr next year.

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Art and cruise collide

GENTING Cruise Lines has “To balance the new with the formally named its first Global- traditional, our guests will also be Class vessel Global Dream, which able to enjoy an authentic Asian is set to enter service in 2021. experience and our signature The announcement was made heartfelt Asian hospitality on by the company’s President Kent Global Dream, developed through Zhu at China’s travel event IBTM the Genting Group’s over 50 China, with attendees treated to years of experience in the Asian MSC Cruises will host a new Degas, is the perfect fit for the a sneak preview of the 208,000 hospitality industry,” said Genting art and dining experience innovative exhibition. gross tonne ship’s specially Cruise Lines President Kent Zhu. inspired by French artist Edgar “I’m sure he would have loved constructed balcony cabins. “Dream Cruises is excited to Degas on board its upcoming this interactive art exhibition, The spacious accommodation begin a new chapter in its story MSC Grandiosa vessel in Nov. the first of its kind at sea and features 20m² of floor space and when Global Dream begins her The experience, described by it is an exciting opportunity to is considered to be 15% larger journey to take Asian travellers the cruise line as “the world’s connect people with Degas’ than standard cabins offered on around the world on grand first fine art experience on artwork in a new way and bring most cruise lines. voyages to Australia, New board a ”, will feature it to life through digital content The cabins are designed for two Zealand, the Baltic Sea and the a purpose-built art installation for MSC Cruises guests,” he said. guests, while the staterooms can Mediterranean in the future,” he within the ship’s L’Atelier Bistro. Grandiosa debuts in Nov. also accommodate up to four added. The exhibition’s curator, PICTURED: Behind the scenes with a unique two-bathroom Pictured: Kent Zhu delivers the Marcello Smarrelli, said the of the upcoming art Edgar Degas design to allow several people to exciting announcement during muse for the experience, exhibition. get ready at once. the event in China.

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Help shape cruise NCLH hosts pre-360 drinks Carnival faces case CRUISE Weekly is reminding A FEDERAL judge in Miami its readers there is still time to has ruled a legal case brought help shape the ongoing profile forward against Carnival of the Australasian cruise Corp that alleges it had been sector by participating in our using ports in without annual industry survey. permission will proceed. The quick poll aims to help The cruise line had pushed evaluate sales, confidence, for the case to be dismissed, service and product however US District Judge knowledge, with participants James Lawrence King said in the running to win a range he was “not persuaded” by of prizes. Carnival’s argument. Take the short survey HERE. Javier Garcia-Bengochea, the descendant of a Cuban business owner, is suing Carnival under a newly activated provision of the 1996 LAST night Norwegian Cruise He noted that with 26 ships Helms-Burton Act (CW 10 PORTHOLE Line Holdings welcomed key across the fleet currently, May), that allows naturalised industry partners at a convivial NCLH was on the cusp of huge Cubans to seek damages for event in the lead-up to today’s expansion with a further 11 property seized by Cuba’s Cruise360 conference. vessels joining the three brands Government after the OFTEN considered the scourge NCLH President, Asia Pacific, over the next decade. revolution in 1959. of the cruise industry, norovirus Steve Odell, highlighted the rapid Odell also announced the Following the ruling, Garcia- can ruin a cruise trip for growth of the business locally, appointment of former Accor Bengochea has subsequently passengers en masse. which now comprises more than Director of Luxury Sales, Gillian filed lawsuits against However, the nasty little bug 120 staff including about 70 in its Seller, as Head of Sales for Regent Norwegian Cruise Line and may have just met its match, in-house Sydney call centre. Seven Seas, along with the Royal Caribbean International. with a new experimental He said the close cooperation previous National Sales Mgr for detection method developed of the group’s three brands: Princess Cruises, Trevor Thwaites, by a team of researchers from Arizona using a smart device. Norwegian, Oceania and Regent as its Head of Sales for Oceania. Honeyboomer back Seven Seas, was key to its success. Phil Hoffmann from Phil The researchers will present CARNIVAL Cruise Line “We’re three brands that don’t Hoffmann Travel is pictured at their results at the American has launched the return of cross over and that’s been proven the event with Lisa Pile, Regent Chemical Society (ACS) 2019 a campaign targeting older to be very beneficial in the Seven Seas and Nicole Costantin National Meeting & Exposition, couples who want to enjoy a market,” Odell said. from Norwegian Cruise Line. where they will show the new child-free cruise. method for detecting norovirus The latest campaign called in only a few drops of water. Dunedin prepares for cruise injection Honeyboomers 3.0 returns for The team use a smartphone- a third straight year, & will run based fluorescence microscope, THE New Zealand city of O’Sullivan, who was speaking at and an app that can calculate Dunedin is expected to benefit a pre-cruise briefing in NZ this across social & PR platforms. norovirus concentrations from from a NZ$66 million economic week, suggesting the projection “Carnival is known for being the pixel count of the images injection on the back of was “nothing to be sneezed at”. the family cruise line, our taken from a sample of water. increased cruise ship visitation From Oct to Apr, Dunedin is holidays are also popular with If the trial is successful, we this summer season. expected to host 130 ships, a couples looking for a fun-filled think this idea could take hold The estimate was made by rise of five ships on last season, holiday experience,” said quickly in the cruise industry, it New Zealand Cruise Association bringing with them 252,000 Carnival Marketing Director could even go viral, oh, sorry... Chief Executive Officer Kevin passengers during the period. Jayne Andrews.

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