From fall 2014 through spring 2015, Holland America Line will offer the most comprehensive South America deployment of the season with four ships positioned in the region. The line's ms Statendam, ms Maasdam, ms Prinsendam and ms Zaandam will sail 20 voyages around the continent.

The Seabourn Pride luxury cruise line visited the island of Saint Eustatius, affectionately known as Statia, earlier this year with over 200 passengers on board. The ship made its inaugural visit to the island last year on New Year’s Eve and returned to the shores of the Golden Rock, with other cruise visits lined up and listed in the annual itinerary.

Royal Caribbean International has been named the Favorite Cruise for 2013 by Outlook Traveller, as per a release. Readers of the magazine voted for Royal Caribbean as part of its annual Outlook Traveller Survey.

The Caribbean offers vacationers vibrant cultures and paradisiacal beaches, and no one can deliver the region like Royal Caribbean International. The cruise line today unveiled its Bahamas, and Southern and short Caribbean program for the 2015-16 seasons.

Royal Caribbean International announced that Allure of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas, Freedomof the Seas and Serenade of the Seas will sail the Caribbean from convenient Florida homeports for the winter 2015-16 season, which are now open for sale.

The British Virgin Islands’ new cruise pier development was highlighted as a new and exciting feature for the BVI’s cruise industry at the Cruise Shipping Miami exhibition and conference held last week.