Asia Cruise Boom Is New Zealand's Gain
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Mile High Apps Win With Rail Plus Asia Cruise Boom Is An app to allow travellers to hook up Rail Plus and Eurostar are mid-air, cheaper flights for ‘mucking giving New Zealand travel agencies in’ at the airport and flying coaches the chance to win $1000 worth of New Zealand’s Gain were among the April Fools jokes re- Countdown or Farmers gift cards Kiwi cruisers are set to benefit region and the potential oppor- leased by travel companies today. every time a team member books from a boom in cruising in Asia, tunities this provides for the Aus- Student Flights promised its new mile and tickets a Eurostar sector be- with the region seeing ‘robust’ tralasian market, both in terms high app would allow travellers to tween 01 Apr-31 May. double-digit growth, according of seasonal deployments and as a ‘hook up’ in the skies by logging in on Along with this, the top selling to CLIA’s new 2014 Asia Cruise source market,” says Jardine. the plane’s Wi-Fi and matching with agency for Eurostar Premier and Trends study. “With more ships based in the re- their fellow passengers. “For single Business Premier Sectors during the Historic numbers are being re- gion, Australia and New Zealand passengers especially this is going incentive period will be rewarded corded in Asia, with double-digit will likely see a greater number to make travelling solo a lot more with $750 worth of Countdown or annual growth over the past two of ships as well as larger capacity fun—no more worrying about being Farmers gift cards. years across all areas including the ships, which would require infra- bored for the next 12 hours,” said New Rail Plus says the new promotion number of ships, sailings, operating structure investment to take advan- Zealand brand leader Sean Berenson. offers the chance for agencies to days and passenger capacity, says tage of the growth opportunities.” Cheapflights said travellers could save demonstrate real teamwork. See p7 CLIA. As the cruise industry in Asia devel- up to $400 on selected routes for help- for details. “With cruise lines hosting nearly 1.4 ops, there’s also likely to be an in- ing with odd jobs like loading their million Asian guests last year, a 34% crease in Kiwis heading on a cruise own luggage, leading safety demon- NZ 787 AKL-SIN? increase in just two years, the global in the region. strations and cleaning the toilets. Air New Zealand will begin operating cruise industry has recognised that “We’re confident that we will see AAT Kings meanwhile launched its a Dreamliner on the Auckland-Sin- Asia is quickly becoming a major in- growth in the number of Kiwis ‘revolutionary’ new CoachCopter and gapore route from 16 Nov, according ternational market in its own right,” cruising in Asian waters and tak- HoverCoach products, set to fly over to the GDS. The 787-9 will replace says CLIA Southeast Asia chair Ann ing advantage of the chance to visit the Blue Mountains and hover on Syd- the B777-200ER and will operate on Sherry. multiple exotic destinations and ney roads from later this year. a daily basis. The increase in guests from Asia cultures during one magnificent in turn means Kiwi cruisers can voyage,” says Jardine. expect to see more ships and more capacity heading to Australasia, as . Key Figures well as associated improvements in Key findings of the CLIA report for Chimu NZ Launch Special: infrastructure to cater to them, says the Asian region include: passenger on Latin America CLIA Australasia general manager capacity is expected to reach almost SAVE 20% & Antarctica Cruises Brett Jardine. 2.2 million this year; 52 cruise ships Galapagos Islands, Amazon River, & Antarctica “We welcome the continued in- will operate in the region, a 10% crease in deployments in the Asian compound annual growth rate since 2013; the number of cruises and 7 Pages This Issue longer voyages in the region has grown 11% a year to 1065 sailings News..........................p1, p2, p3, p4, p6 for 2015; and the number of days Click to view flyer View flyer for details & send it out to your database! Air New Zealand incentive .............. p5 cruise ships are in operation has Rail Plus incentive ........................... p7 0800 131 900 [email protected] grown from 4307 in 2013 to 5824 www.chimuadventures.com in 2015. UNFORGETTABLE EUROPE RIVER CRUISING Europe’s Most Luxurious River Ships and Land Journeys PRE-RELEASE 2016 CLICK HERE to view the APT Europe 2016 Pre Release brochure News & Product NZ: Air Auckland? BNE Trialling Transport Minister Simon Bridg- es has hinted at new international flights into Christchurch as Air New Wed 01 Apr 15 P2 Digital Dep. Card Zealand faces a backlash down south, Brisbane Airport is trialling a The information is then converted where it’s reportedly being dubbed KLM’s New Aircraft Digital Departure Card for inter- into a QR code that is scanned and ‘Air Auckland’. KLM Cityhopper is renewing its national passengers, removing the printed at bespoke kiosks located in Christchurch Labour MPs say they fleet by purchasing fifteen Embraer age old necessity of hand writing the International Terminal. have secured a meeting in mid-Apr 175 aircraft (E175+) and two Em- the official ‘outgoing passenger The personalised and printed card with NZ boss Christopher Luxon, fol- braer 190 aircraft (E190). card’ required for immigration is then signed by the passenger and lowing their disappointment over the KLM Cityhopper will welcome the purposes. collected by Customs officers dur- carrier’s call to axe its Christchurch two E190s in Dec, while the E175+ The new Digital Departure Card is ing the normal departure process. If to Tokyo Narita summer flights. NZ aircraft will enter the fleet between built within the scope of the airport’s the information is saved on the app, will no longer operate any long-haul Mar 2016 and Jun 2018. 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