Reach out to cruise clients who haven't made a commitment yet, because there's pent-up demand in the marketplace, cruise line executives told agents last week during a panel discussion at CLIA's Cruise3sixty conference here.

Paul Gauguin Cruises, operator of the highest-rated and longest continually sailing luxury cruise ship in the South Pacific, the m/s Paul Gauguin, is the first travel company to earn the "e-Stewards Enterprise" designation for pursuing globally responsible recycling practices for its electronics.

The cruise sector in Martinique was bolstered recently with news that Royal Caribbean International has included Fort-de-France port calls in winter 2012-2013 itineraries aboard the MS Vision of the Seas, which carries a maximum passenger capacity in excess of 2,400 people.