Regent Seven Seas Cruises will embark on the longest and most extensive voyage in its history with the 115-night 2008 World Cruise the line’s eighth such cruise.

Following strong initial consumer response to Carnival Freedom’s inaugural Mediterranean/Greek Isles cruise program set to begin this spring, Carnival Cruise Lines’ 110,000-ton Super Liner will return to Europe for another season of 12-day voyages in 2008.

With cruise ships making 242 stops on Dominica this cruise season there are plenty of reason for Dominica’s tourism authorities to be very happy.

The official 2006-2007 cruise season began last week in Uruguay with the arrival in Montevideo of the MS Amsterdam carrying 1.300 tourists and 600 crew members. The 61.000 tons displacement MS Amsterdam belonging to the Holland America Cruise Line arrived from Rio de Janeiro and is scheduled to continue for Buenos Aires.

At this time last year, Ambassadors International was not known in the cruise business. This year, it owns seven river ships, has established a cruise division specializing in North American river cruises and as a result posted an enormous year-over-year gain.

Celebrity Cruises is serving up another sizzling “Savor the Caribbean” series featuring some of the nation’s hottest chefs. Celebrity’s fourth annual series will take place on Millennium’s seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailings from January 7 through March 4 next year.