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18TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1998 JUNE 2015 ISSUE 95 PRICE $8.25 (INCL GST) Viking Star at Istanbul Page 10 2020 Target Smashed – 1 million Australians cruise in 2014 – Pages 6 and 7 Annual River Cruise Report Brand-New Billion Dollar Page 35 Cruise Ship Coming to Australia Page 4 Featuring a comprehensive coverage of Global Cruising for Cruise Passengers, the Trade and the Industry www.cruisingnews.com TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL AT SEA Sydney Film Festival and Princess Cruises present the inaugural Travelling Film Festival onboard Diamond Princess as she cruises out of Sydney Harbour to New Zealand. Enjoy locally produced Kiwi films as you experience this festival at sea; with screenings, Q&As and a program of events hosted by special Sydney Film Festival guests. This issue This Sydney AUSTRALIA Auckland Tauranga Tasman Sea Wellington TASMANIA NEW ZEALAND Akaroa Dunedin Fiordland National Park (Port Chalmers) Scenic cruising NEW ZEALAND Interior Oceanview Balcony Mini-Suite 12 nights from* from* from* from* Diamond Princess® Launch fares~ $1,849 $2,449 $2,949 $3,649 Roundtrip from Sydney Your $1,719 $2,299 $2,639 $3,299 2016 Departure Date fares 4 Feb +Fares are per person twin share. PROUD SPONSORS OF THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL BOOK NOW! Visit your Travel Agent | 1300 385 631 | www.princess.com *Fares are cruise only per person, in AUD, in complete twin accommodation, based on lead interior, oceanview, balcony and mini-suite staterooms available at time of printing, inclusive of all discounts, taxes, fees and port expenses (which are subject to change). Offer ends 30 June 2015 unless sold out prior. Princess Cruises has set aside a reasonable number of staterooms which are available at these fares. Once these staterooms are sold, fares may revert to a higher fare, but may also be discounted. Valid for new bookings and not combinable with any other offer. Offers subject to availability. Some oceanview staterooms may have obstructed views. +Fare based on specific departure date only. Whilst information is correct at time of publication, offer may be withdrawn or varied at any time without notice. ~Comparison launch fares are based on fares launched into the market from March 2014. To be read in conjunction with the Booking and Passage Conditions available at princess.com/legal/passage_contract/index.jsp which passengers will be bound by. A 1.5% surcharge will apply to all payments made by credit cards for direct bookings made via our call centre and website. Travel agents may charge additional fees - check with your travel agent. Carnival plc trading as Princess Cruises. ABN 23 107 998 443. 18TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1998 JUNE 2015 ISSUE 95 PRICE $8.25 (INCL GST) As our April issue went to press Royal Caribbean TRAVELLING FILM announced that Australia will welcome its very own brand new cruise ship for the first time when the 168,666 GRT, 348 metre long (over 3 football fields) and over 50 metres high Ovation of the Seas arrives in Sydney for Viking Star at Istanbul FESTIVAL AT SEA Page 10 the peak summer season from December 2016. Currently 2020 Target Smashed – 1 million Australians cruise in 2014 – Pages 6 and 7 under construction in Germany and with a price tag of Annual River Cruise Report Brand-New Billion Dollar Page 35 Cruise Ship Coming to Australia USD$1 billion, the Quantum Class megaliner will not Sydney Film Festival and Princess Cruises present the inaugural Page 4 only claim the title of the largest cruise ship to ever Travelling Film Festival onboard Diamond Princess as she cruises call Australia home – carrying almost 5,000 guests and 1,500 crew – but also the out of Sydney Harbour to New Zealand. most technologically advanced. Details are outlined on page 4 and the centre of the magazine shows how the ship will appear in Sydney Harbour. Exciting Times! Enjoy locally produced Kiwi films as you experience this festival Also announced was the news that Australians’ love of cruising has propelled the at sea; with screenings, Q&As and a program of events hosted by Featuring a comprehensive coverage of Global Cruising for Cruise Passengers, the Trade and the Industry www.cruisingnews.com local cruise industry to a new milestone, with latest figures revealing that more than special Sydney Film Festival guests. one million Australians took a cruise holiday in 2014. The record result confirms Front Cover Photos Australia’s position as the world’s fastest growing source of cruise passengers, with – Viking Cruises, Viking River Cruises and RCI numbers surging 20.4 per cent last year to reach 1,003,256 cruisers. The target of 1 million was originally set for 2020. Star Cruises Return ........................ 8 Next target 2 million by 2020. 2017 Maiden World Cruise ............... 8 China Year Round ........................10 We have covered the growing Asian cruise market, in particular the Chinese market, Top Deck Wine Festival ..................12 in recent issues of the magazine. Latest prediction is for the Chinese market to Princess to Sail South America ..........14 grow to 4.5 million passengers by 2020. No wonder the cruise companies are paying Latest Look of Next Generation Ships ...16 attention to Asia. Next Generation MSC Ship ..............20 There is concern that the Port Authority of NSW has suspended all overnight cruise New Culinary Discovery Tours ..........22 ship visits to White Bay until the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) This issue This Rob Henderson-Doug Cremer has regulated ultra-low sulphur fuel use for ships berthing at the terminal. This is Collection-Cricket .......................32 also a problem in many other ports around the world. Cruise companies have been Photo Gallery ......................... 27/30 working on the situation for some time. Carnival Australia is working cooperatively with the NSW Government and the EPA in relation to new air quality standards at NSW ports, keeping in mind that cruise ships currently operate well within existing air quality standards. It is likely that this issue will have been resolved and overnight stays at White Bay resumed by early 2016. See story page 9. We now look forward to a monster summer cruise season “down under” with the arrival of new ships to the region. Put November 25 in your diary if you are in Sydney. The five ships of the P&O fleet will make a grand entrance into Sydney Harbour on that day. Also Royal Caribbean has extended the 2015/16 Australian season of their newest ship to call Sydney home, Explorer of the Seas. Her debut Sydney season will now include two new sailings – a 12 night New Zealand sailing and a grand 24-night transpacific voyage both departing in April 2016 as the ship will go to AUSTRALIA Cunard’s cruise in Alaska instead of Asia after the Australian season. There will be a 12 night 175th Anniversary sailing to New Zealand departing Sydney on 12 April and then on 23 April the ship Auckland 5 will leave Sydney for a repositioning cruise to Honolulu. Tauranga Tasman Sea Wellington TASMANIA NEW ZEALAND Akaroa Dunedin BREAKING NEWS Fiordland National Park (Port Chalmers) Scenic cruising Carnival Corporation & plc has Beginning in April 2016, fathom will launched a new brand called embark on seven-day voyages from fathom™, defining a new travel PortMiami aboard the MV Adonia, category it is calling “social impact a 710-passenger vessel redeployed NEW ZEALAND Interior Oceanview Balcony Mini-Suite 12 nights from* from* from* from* Gallipoli Centenary travel,” that will offer consumers from Carnival Corporation’s P&O Diamond Princess® Launch 24 authentic, meaningful impact travel Cruises (UK) for the start-up of the fares~ $1,849 $2,449 $2,949 $3,649 Roundtrip from Sydney experiences to work alongside locals new operation. Depending on their Your $1,719 $2,299 $2,639 $3,299 passions, interests and skills, travellers 2016 Departure Date fares as they tackle community needs. The will have the opportunity to choose 4 Feb +Fares are per person twin share. company’s first destination will be the Dominican Republic, a country known from a range of social impact activities for its spectacular beauty but also a and experiences both onboard and country where the average household onshore. PROUD SPONSORS OF THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL income is approximately $6,000 USD Carnival Australia CEO Ann Sherry a year and more than two million described fathom as a ground- BOOK NOW! Visit your Travel Agent | 1300 385 631 | www.princess.com Dominicans do not have access to breaking move for the tourism industry. “I think fathom is a wonderful initiative *Fares are cruise only per person, in AUD, in complete twin accommodation, based on lead interior, oceanview, balcony and mini-suite staterooms available at time of printing, inclusive of all discounts, taxes, fees piped water. fathom will operate as and port expenses (which are subject to change). Offer ends 30 June 2015 unless sold out prior. Princess Cruises has set aside a reasonable number of staterooms which are available at these fares. Once these a standalone brand, the 10th global that combines cruising with the desire staterooms are sold, fares may revert to a higher fare, but may also be discounted. Valid for new bookings and not combinable with any other offer. Offers subject to availability. Some oceanview staterooms may of people to make a difference.” have obstructed views. +Fare based on specific departure date only. Whilst information is correct at time of publication, offer may be withdrawn or varied at any time without notice. ~Comparison launch fares are Mumbai, India brand in the Carnival Corporation based on fares launched into the market from March 2014. To be read in conjunction with the Booking and Passage Conditions available at princess.com/legal/passage_contract/index.jsp which passengers will be 51 family.