Maggie Carbonell has joined the Scenic Group as Vice President of Marketing. She will oversee and direct the US marketing activities for Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours, Emerald Cruises, and Scenic Eclipse. “We interviewed a large number of highly qualified marketing candidates and Maggie’s combination [Read more...]
Satcoms service provider, Intellian Technologies is to hold what it calls a ‘candid discussion’ with its cruise market experts on 2nd June. The hour-long webinar, which is open, will take place at 9 am EST. It will be aimed at those who are interested in learning [Read more...]
Cruise Britain has expressed delight in the opening of domestic cruise alongside the resumption of domestic tourism and in line with Step 3 of the UK Government roadmap out of lockdown. This long-awaited restart is the culmination of extensive collaboration between cruise industry partners and [Read more...]
The two leading ferry operators on the English Channel - P&O Ferries and DFDS - have reached an agreement to share freight space on their Dover/Calais ships to maintain customer service levels. Under a space charter agreement, freight drivers can arrive at either the Port [Read more...]
On 13th May, the US Senate approved the Alaska Tourism Recovery Act. This act is designed to allow large ships to operate cruises to Alaska this summer. It provides a waiver of the US cabotage laws. However, it now goes to the US House for [Read more...]
Later this month, Royal Caribbean International (RCI) will start rehiring crew members from India. Around two weeks after announcing it would temporarily halt hiring crew members from India, this policy will be reversed. RCI President and CEO, Michael Bayley (pictured) posted on Facebook that the hirings [Read more...]
P&O Ferries is to re-introduce a fifth ropax on its Dover/Calais route in June in the face of fresh competition from Irish Ferries. The 28,000 gt ‘Pride of Burgundy’ - with capacity to carry 120 lorries - will restore the P&O Dover/Calais fleet to its [Read more...]
UK seafarers’ union RMT has written to the Managing Director of Irish Ferries, Andrew Sheen, to demand a meeting to discuss the impact on local seafarer jobs of its plan to introduce a new Dover/Calais service. Irish Ferries currently operates roll-on roll-off ferry services between [Read more...]
The CEOs of some of the world’s biggest cruise lines will participate in the first virtual panel discussion that will kick off the 6th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2021 on 25th May. Gianni Onorato, CEO of MSC Cruises (pictured), Michael Thamm, Group CEO Costa Group [Read more...]
Ambassador Cruise Line, a new UK-based operator aimed at the over 50s market, plans to start cruises from Tilbury in April, 2022. Among the management team are CEO Christian Verhounig, CCO Christopher Coates, CIO Gary Hides and CFO Simon Weeks, who were all Cruise & [Read more...]