Hawaii and
Tahiti.
While the return-to-service planning is a top focus for the cruise industry this spring, cruise lines are also creating enticing new product offerings. For example,
Uniworld Boutique River Cruises announced that
Ellen
Mystery Cruise in summer 2022. Guests who book this fun, mysterious option won t know anything about where they re headed for a cruise vacation until they re en route to the airport.
Carnival Cruise Line s new
Mardi Gras, the line s largest ship, is expected to begin service from
Port Canaveral,
FL, later this year. Most notably, this new ship will become the first LNG-powered (liquified natural gas) vessel to sail from the U.S. For travel advisors whose clients are asking about LNG and how it powers a ship, Carnival created a short new video for Earth Day last week.
Gradual U.S./Global Restart
“Unfortunately, when we do restart as an industry and as a company, it’s not going to be a light switch,” Donald stressed. “It’s not going to be, ‘the ships, well, now they’re all in.’
Instead, he said: It will be a gradual introduction a layered approach of adding ships back in phases as all the destinations aren’t going to open simultaneously at once,” given differences in regulations and local conditions.
While Donald (shown at right) said he couldn’t predict a restart date, “what I will predict is that certainly by the end of this year, most, if not all, of our fleet, I’m optimistic, will be in action… I think there’s a really high possibility that all of it will be back by early next year, if things continue to progress the way they have.”
Singapore), which revealed the 2021 travel mindset.
Despite the financial impact of COVID-19 hitting many hard, in the first three weeks of January, Tripadvisor travelers were searching for pricier trips than they had in the past two years during the same period. In fact, the average cost of a single future trip in 2021 has jumped 13 percent since January 2019.
U.S. travelers were longing for high-end trips and sunny beach getaways, both domestically and internationally.
Miami Beach is the fastest recovering domestic destination, with southern neighbors
Cancun and
Martinique, the gastronomic delights of
Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil and the bustling and vibrant
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Lush Experiences, a sales, marketing and representation organization, has announced that
The Spain Collection and
Casablanca Tours have become a part of the Lush family of luxury properties and travel experience providers. The countries represented by these experiential travel providers include
Spain,
Morocco.
The Spain Collection creates travel experiences throughout Spain and Portugal, covering areas of traveler interest from nature and sports to shopping and religious heritage. The group, according to Lush Experiences, prides itself on creating authentic cultural and traditional connections for its clients while also supporting local businesses.
The Spain Collection CEO
Abene Mendizabal in a press statement said Lush Experiences “share[s] our passion for the region, its history and what it has to offer and they have the contacts and connections to achieve the business objectives we have set in place to move us forward.”
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Virtuoso has concluded its first event of the year, the annual
U.S. and Canada Forum, February 2-4. The live virtual event was sold out with more than 350 attendees, according to the luxury travel network.
Business sessions included more than 2,745 one-to-one networking appointments, professional development courses, a live address from Virtuoso chairman and CEO
Matthew D. Upchurch and presentations on the company’s forward plans from Virtuoso leaders. The event, which brought together the owners and managers from Virtuoso’s travel agency members in the