Carnival Cruise Line’s largest ship, the 113,300-gross-ton Carnival Splendor, is undergoing its final outfitting at Fincantieri’s Sestri yard in Genoa, Italy. The ship is the first in a new class for Carnival and will have the line’s first spa cabins.
Holland America Line added a link on its website to preview its newest ship, the Eurodam. The site features videos, photographs, animation and renderings. An invitation to explore the Eurodam greets visitors to the site.
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has unveiled the Allied Membership program, designed to offer certain benefits to travel suppliers and connect them with CLIA’s robust roster of travel agents and agencies.
Windstar Cruises announced its 2008 sailing season, with a total of 146 sailings aboard its three luxury yachts. In the Caribbean, the Wind Surf is offering seven-day sailings roundtrip from Barbados with a variety of ports of call on northbound and southbound itineraries, and the Wind Spirit is offering seven-day sailings roundtrip from St. Thomas.
With the 2007/2008 cruise ship season scheduled to bring in over 400,000 passengers to St Kitts and Nevis, it is expected that the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons will be busier.
The major representatives from the world cruise industry met this week in Miami to address the industry’s problems that have significantly eroded profits and threaten even more, given the current prices of fuel.