NCL Corporation (NCL) announced that its New York year-round ship Norwegian Dawn will begin calling into Bermuda for the 2006-2007 summer seasons. Norwegian Dawn´s new seven-day itinerary with calls both into Bermuda and the Bahamas is an industry exclusive and will feature a day in Bermuda, a day at NCL´s private island Great Stirrup Cay and an overnight in Nassau.

A kaleidoscope of thrilling images and adventures await guests of the Seven Seas Mariner´s “Grand Circle South America” voyage departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 10, 2006, on a roundtrip 62-night journey which is also available in four 12- to 20-night combinable segments. Aboard and ashore, the all balcony-suite Seven Seas Mariner´s six-star luxury experience will be enhanced by a series of enrichment programs with famed ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau and his Ocean Futures Society experts, plus a selection of new “Concierge Choice” shore excursions.

Holland America Line is expanding its sun-splashed cruises to Mexico in 2007 by offering more wildlife-abundant Sea of Cortez sailings and adding a third ship featuring Mexican Riviera cruises. The Zaandam returns to the Mexican Riviera to join the Oosterdam and Ryndam in 2007 to offer a total of 42 Mexico cruises -10 more than in 2006- sailing roundtrip from the convenient homeport of San Diego.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) changed up the itinerary of its New York-based ship, the Norwegian Dawn, so that it will call in Bermuda during its 2006-2007 seasons. The ship, which in 2003 pioneered a seven-day year-round cruise from New York that included two ports in Florida and two in the Bahamas, will begin a new itinerary in May that calls in Bermuda; Great Stirrup Cay, NCL´s private Bahamian island; and an overnight in Nassau, Bahamas.

According to a survey conducted by the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, half of the cruise vessel passengers who take a cruise to Southern South Atlantic countries do so because the Falkland Islands is on the itinerary. The survey showed that around 30,000 people during the 2004-20055 austral summer joined ships touring from Buenos Aires to Santiago because they saw that there would be a one-day stopover on the Falkland Islands.

A return to Israel, the Carnival in Rio, three days cruising Antarctica, three days in Dubai and Cape Town, and multiple African safari options are among the rare travel opportunities distinguishing Crystal Cruises´ 12th annual 2007 World Cruise. Departing on January 12, 2007, from Miami, Florida to Southampton, England on a 109-day journey of discovery, the ultra-luxurious Crystal Serenity will explore 44 ports of call in 27 countries on five continents –the most extensive global crossing ever offered by the luxury line.