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Cruising is a very fast growing segment. A good economy is feeding the trend to sailing. Figures of 25 million worldwide passengers is predicted for 2018.
Giant floating cities with over 7,000 souls-on-board are taking a big chunk of folks on their lifetime treat.… Read the rest
Bergen is Norway’s busiest cruise destination. But like many other “hot tourist spots,” the citizens are in an uproar over the hordes that are taking over the ambiance of their village.
The port is asking for permission to reduce the number of cruise ships to three per day or a maximum of 8,000 cruise passengers.… Read the rest
We’ve talked a LOT about the project funded by Clive Palmer, the billiionaire Aussie who wants to construct an exact replica of the Titanic ship that went down into 12,000 feet of the Atlantic in 1915.
READ More about Clive’s efforts on our blogs. … and search on the site for numerous… Read the rest
The world’s largest cruise company, Carnival Holdings, now has a monster ship. How does 6,000 passengers sound? And 1,500 crew. Yikes! That’s a small city where I come from. Births, deaths … whatever you can imagine. The name is AIDAnova.
The beast cost shy of $1 BILLION to build. What do you… Read the rest
If you‘ve been keeping up with the news lately you heard that a woman fell off a ship and treaded water for 10 hours. That is no typo – again TEN hours. Details on WHY are not public. This is the second person to fall off a ship of this cruise line in two months.
The reality is that it’s the person’s fault – end… Read the rest
On this site we cater to speakers on cruise ships – and those who want to be one. We’ve blogged about the state of the ports that ships are stopping at. They unload tourists who partake of up to ten “excursions,” aka tours done by locals. Many of those destinations are getting tired of all the visitors.… Read the rest