Average age of a cruiser is now under 48 as industry bounces back from pandemic, CLIA reveals in new report
Almost all ocean ships will be back by August
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A record 2million British and Irish holidaymakers took a cruise last year
Numbers have doubled in 14 years
Eight cruise passengers die as plane crashes in Alaska
Passengers were on a shore excursion from Holland America Line ship Westerdam
British ports are attracting thousands of new cruise passengers
British ports are riding a wave of success as the number of cruise passengers using them continues to grow, new figures show. Southampton remains Europe’s busiest cruise centre, with an expected 11 per cent increase in […]
From the subbed limes to the ridiculous – cruise passengers’ complaints
I was chatting to an executive of one top-quality cruise line who told me the following story. A family spent thousands of pounds on a voyage and always insisted on having lime in their gin […]
MSC vows to treble number of British passengers in three years
MSC aims to lure British passengers with new ships
The missing 60,000 British passengers – how the cruise industry got its sums wrong
‘Another record year for British passengers’ proclaimed the headlines – including mine – in January when the cruise industry body CLIA released its forecast figures for 2013. A total of 1.79million Britons were said to […]
Happy tenth birthday to Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 – with video
It’s ten years ago tomorrow, January 8, that Queen Mary 2 was named. Since then she has made 419 voyages, including more than 200 transatlantic crossings, and called at 182 ports in 60 countries. Having taken […]
British cruise passengers set new records
Britain remains a nation of cruise addicts despite the Costa Concordia tragedy, new figures reveal. More than 1,700,000 took a holiday at sea last year – and more than half of those went on two […]