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Authentic Cruising
Sampling regional cuisine and entertainment. Scouring markets for handcrafted treasures. Visiting with residents. Deep-diving into cultural heritage. Whatever the...
Luxury: It’s All in the Experience
When it comes to catering to luxury clients, they expect nothing but the very best in their hotel choice and amenities, but in today’s luxury market that needs to be coupled with experiences that create memories.
Fitness Afloat
Your clients can find fitness afloat as attitudes about maintaining a healthy lifestyle while sailing are becoming more of the norm. Something beyond, well, eating and sleeping.
Disney Cruise Line to Sail from New Orleans for First Time
In early 2020, Disney Cruise Line will add a brand-new homeport in New Orleans and return to the Hawaiian Islands.
Red Tide Affects Florida: Explore Fun Beyond the Beach
Red tide is affecting Florida Gulf Coast beaches, and possibly costing you some bookings, but we have a few suggestions for your clients to explore beyond the beach.
Expedition Cruising Takes Active Luxury Off the Charts
If your clients think expedition cruising means roughing it, they haven’t seen the offerings of the current wave of luxury ships.
10 Wellness Bookings
Spiritual journey, yoga retreats, meditative spaces, activity-fueled getaway, or a tequila-infused massage—whatever your client’s desire, resorts in Mexico are focusing on activities and programs that put the spotlight on your client’s well-being while they are vacationing.
Luxury Cruise Bookings: What Travel Advisors are Saying
What are your clients’ expectations when they go on a luxury cruise vacation? We posed this question and a handful of others to two travel advisors who specialize in cruise bookings.
Sailing into 2018
Here’s what you can count on in the 2018 cruise picture: There’s certain to be something that pings your clients’ radar.
Top-Selling Destinations
A trio of reliably top-selling destinations, say travel advisors, will continue to be top of mind in 2018.
How to Book a High School Choir on a River Cruise
It all started with a chance meeting on board a river cruise ship while sailing the Danube. That chance meeting led to a high school choir booking on the Rhine.
Melodious Rhine
Travel advisor Mary Crowley met Michael Hayden, director of choirs at Mira Costa High School in California, on a Danube River sailing back in 2015. One month later, Hayden called Crowley to throw out the idea of a Rhine cruise for his choir. From there was born a high school choir group charter booking on an AmaWaterways ship.
Romance on the Waters
Romance, they say, is where you find it. Words good to hear if you’re a travel consultant who sells cruises, considering that travelers find a blissful ambiance to be a sure thing when they set sail by river or sea.
Sailing the High Seas, Family-Style
A look at the 2017 crop of seagoing vessels reveals such a wave-making bounty of family-friendly features that your clients likely can’t resist the urge to round up the tribe and set sail.
Engaging Voyages
Like a good book, the cruise itineraries we’ve rounded up below are definite page-turners, and getting to the final chapter is always bittersweet.
Stay Active & Get Pampered
Cruise lines are listening: Health-conscious travelers want to stay fit, stick to their wellness routine, and, of course, book a few spa treatments while sailing the world.
Spa and Wellness Offerings on Cruises
For the cruise feature in the October 2016 print edition of Recommend, we reached out to several travel advisors to get their take on the spa and wellness trends on board cruise lines. Here's what they had to say.
Expedition Cruising: Adventure of a Lifetime
Fifty years ago Lindblad Expeditions founder Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first citizen explorer expedition to Antarctica, marking the invention of the category of “expedition travel.”
Get Your Bottom Line in Ship Shape
Agents, you should have these recently launched cruise incentives, resources and tools on your radar. So we’ve rounded up a few bits of news to make sure you're up-to-date.
Aloha From Blue Sky Tours
Blue Sky Tours is devoted to helping its travel agent partners create custom vacations for their clients.
