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Tuesday 15 Sep 2015
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Princess Prez visits Sydney team
AHEAD of Princess Cruises’
biggest ever summer season in
Australian waters, the line’s global
president Jan Swartz dropped in
from the US to pay a visit to her
Sydney-based team.
Five ships will make up the
Princess Cruises Australia oering
this year, with capacity boosted by
two Grand Class ships in Golden
Princess and Diamond Princess.The two seasonal mega-liners
will complement the year-round
presence of Aussie favourites
Dawn Princess, Sun Princess and
Sea Princess, newly returned from
a 104-night circumnavigaon of
the globe via the Balc which
took in 41 ports in 28 countries.
During her visit, Swartz thanked
the reless eorts of the Sydney
team for building the Princess
brand into a household name in
the Australian market.
In addion, the team were
briefed about excing elements
to the 2017 winter programwhich will see another Australian
rst in a round-world cruise to
the Arcc Circle from Sydney.
Swartz is pictured above with
the Sydney-based Princess team.
New NZ levy to hit cruiseTHE New
Zealand cruising
sector is likely
to be heavily
impacted by a
new “border
clearance
levy” which is
proposed for
introducon on
01 Jan 2016.
Cruise NewZealand general manager Raewyn
Tan (pictured) told delegates
at the recent Cruise Down
Under conference in Darwin
the measure, announced during
the NZ budget in May, aimed to
fully recover the cost of border
clearance and would impact both
passengers and crew.
Cruise will be parcularly hard
hit because the levy will apply at
each port visited, meaning total
government costs per head couldbe as high as NZ$62.62.
While Cruise New Zealand
is lobbying hard against the
changes, indicaons from
the government are that it is
determined to recover the costs,
so even if crew are exempted the
impost would simply be shied to
a higher rate for passengers.
Tan said the impost is likely to
signicantly hit the growth rate
of cruise tourism in New Zealand
which is a growing contributor
to the country’s
economy.
Other key
issues facing
the NZ cruise
sector include
infrastructure,
with the current
average ship
vising the
country having a
length of 261m.However the advent of vessels
such as Royal Caribbean’s Ovaon
of the Seas, at around 350m,
poses parcular challenges.
Ovaon is set to visit Auckland
in her debut season, with the NZ
harbour city not having facilies
large enough to handle the vessel
meaning the 4200+ passengers
will have to be tendered to shore.
HAL discounts ightsRETURN Economy class airfares
to Europe priced at $999 have
been dangled by Holland America
Line in conjuncon with bookings
on 37 European sailings in 2016.
The fare is valid for departure
from SYD, BNE, MEL, ADL and
PER on bookings of Verandah
Stateroom categories or above.
Sweetening the deal further are
the inclusion of a HAL Signature
Beverage Package, a Pinnacle Grill
dinner for two, taxes, fees & port
expenses and a 50% deposits.
Bookings must be in by 31 Oct -
more info on 1300 987 321.
Big CH cruise monthONE year since taking control of
Creave Cruising from Adventure
World, Creave Holidays has
halked up its biggest month of
ales through its online portal.
The cruise oshoot of The Travel
Corporaon wholesaler Creave
Holidays recorded a 2,000% year-
on-year sales jump for Jul.
Creave Cruising gm Peter
Forsyth said the brand’s goal in
he last year has been to restore
he faith of agents as its preferredpartner, which has translated into
400 new signups in Jul alone.
“Our goal was to deliver a
imple and ecient booking
process that when combined with
he support of our experienced
eam would return Creave
Cruising to its former status as
he cruise specialists,” he said.
Cruise helps migrantsEUROPEAN cruise lines
Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises
have stepped in with generous
donaons to assist with projects
associated with refugee relief.
The two Carnival Corporaon
brands each contributed €100,000
to Medecins Sans Froneres and
the “Akon Deutschland hil”
alliance, two charity organisaons
based in Italy and Germany.
“The current situaon is an
exceponal challenge for the
whole of Europe. The fate of the
refugees concerns all of us,” Costa
Group ceo Michael Thamm said.
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Tuesday 15 Sep 2015
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Land programs visit iconicsites such as Machu Picchu andIguazu Falls, the Atacama Desert,the Andes Mountains and theBrazilian coastline.
New destinations for 2016/17
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BrochureSpotlight
Norwegian Escape’s
new boutiquesNORWEGIAN Cruise Line has
announced more details of the
on-board retail oering aboard
its new Norwegian Escape which
will make her maiden voyage this
coming Nov.
LACOSTE and Carolina Herrera
bouques will feature on the ship
- the rst at sea for each brand, as
well as being the rst bouques
to be designed specically for a
Norwegian Cruise Line vessel.
“These exclusive bouques fromtwo legendary fashion industry
icons add further glamour to
one of the most excing cruise
ships ever built,” said Norwegian
Cruise Line’s president and chief
operang ocer, Andy Stuart.
He said LACOSTE and Carolina
Herrera would oer guests a
shopping experience unlike any
at sea - alongside other on-board
brands including Hublot, Bvlgari,
Tissot and Uno de 50.
Stuart said Escape would be therst to introduce Ulysses Nardin
watches, as well as a “hand-
picked collecon of Columbian
Emeralds”.
Hamburg cruise daysTOURISTS in Hamburg,
Germany were mesmerisedover the weekend by the Grand
Hamburg Cruise Days Parade, an
aquac extravaganza which saw
a eet of cruise ships docked in
the port before making their way
down the River Elbe.
Last Fri the Costa neoRomanca
and the Amadea arrived, followed
by Mein Schif 4, MS Europa and
AIDAbella the next day.
On Sat evening hundreds of
thousands of cheering visitors
gathered on the banks of the Elbefor the parade, with AIDAbella,
Mein Schif 4 and MS Europa
making their way escorted by
“countless barges, sailing vessels
and passenger ships”.
Yesterday the fesval connued
with the arrival of Cunard’s Queen
Mary 2 and MSC Splendida which
both le the port together in the
evening to wrap up the event.
Korean cruise planKOREA’S Hyundai Merchant
Marine is understood to be close
to purchasing a second-hand
cruise ship, according to the
Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper.
The company is looking to sail
the vessel between China and
South Korea as well as other
desnaons, with the price listed
at about US$166 million.
The report says the vessel will
have a “foreigners-only” casino
on board as well as a K-Pop
concert and visits to desnaons
on Jeju Island where famous
Korean TV shows were made.
A US hotel management
company is also expected to join
the venture as an investor.
New Whitsunday catsWHITSUNDAY Rent a Yacht has
dded two new easy-to-skipper
ailing catamarans to its eet,
which are now both on oer to
bareboat charterers.
The Leopard 38 meets the
emand for a four-cabin vessel,
while the Seawind 1160 sleeps six
1800 075 000.
Princess is so sweetPRINCESS Cruises has
announced the expansion ofits partnership with master
chocolaer and pastry designer
Norman Love.
A range of new chocolate
products have been developed
in the wake of the success of the
cruise line’s signature “Chocolate
Journeys” experience, with
addions including breakfast
treats and a chocolate cocktail.
Princess Cruises vice president
Australia and NZ, Stuart Allison,
conrmed that the indulgentoerings would be rolled out
across the eet from Nov,
including on the line’s Australian
based ships.
He said a recent Princess Cruises
survey had revealed that 40% of
Australians eat more chocolate
while on holiday.
The opons include new pastries
and cakes designed by Chef Love,
chocolate soue available on
the main dining room dessert
menu on selected evenings, andsavoury breakfast items featuring
touches of premium chocolate in
the Horizon Court.
See chocolatejourneys.com.
Fred. Olsen cafeFRED. Olsen Cruise Lines
has announced the eet-wide
rollout of a new Bookmark Cafe
on-board “coee and luxury
chocolate shop”.
The relaxing, sociable area was
introduced on Balmoral, Braemar,
Boudicca and Black Watch during
dry-docks in recent years, with
the Bookmark branding reecng
their locaon adjacent to the
ships’ libraries.
The Cafes serve a selecon of
specialty coees and teas from
Taylors of Harrogate as well as
hand-made chocolates such as
pralines and Champagne trues.
Carnival US commCARNIVAL Cruise Line will
revamp its remuneraon
structure for US travel agents,
reducing the number of sailed
cabins required for each er
to create “signicantly greater
earning opportunies”.
Applicable to new bookings
within the USA from 01 Jan 2016,
the new structure is the brainchild
of Adolfo Perez, recently named
CCL vice president of trade sales.
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FREMANTLEPacific Dawn 21 Sep
NOW that’s some well-travelledScotch whisky.
Lark Distillery in Tasmania iscurrently preparing and bottlingwhat it claims to be “the world’sbest-travelled whisky”, with thebrew having been carried onover 400 Bass Strait crossingsonboard Spirit of Tasmania I & II.
Loaded onboard the line’s twovessels over two years ago insidetwo 20-litre Australian fortiedwine barrels, the whisky has nowtravelled 172,887 kilometres toand from the Aussie mainland.
The nal product will bereleased in limited edition 500mlbottles and will be sold onboardthe two Spirit of Tasmania vessels, retailing for $145 each.
Bottling of the high end spirithas been timed to coincide withthe Bass Strait line’s annual
Flavours of Tassie promotion,which treats passengers to someof the state’s best food and wineoerings from local producers.
“We are convinced that thebarrels we loaded on to Spirit ofTasmania I and II more than 12months ago will deliver a rich,intense, luscious malt inuencedby Bass Strait,” Lark Distilleryowner Bill Lark commented.
P O R T H O L E
SYDNEYPacific Pearl 17 SepPacific Jewel 17 SepDawn Princess 18 SepPacific Jewel 20 SepPacific Pearl 21 Sep
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Pacic strategy underwayIn-counTry consultaons and
workshops are being conducted
by the South Pacic Tourism
Organisaon to help Pacic Island
naons develop a framework for
cruise tourism Best Pracces.
The step is the latest in the
SPTO’s eorts to implement
the Pacic Cruise Tourism
Development Strategy, under
the framework of the European
Union’s Pacic Regional Tourism
Capacity Building Program.
Workshops will assess business
ideas proposed during the recent
Pacic Cruise Development forum
which took place in Melbourne
earlier this year (CW 02 Jun).
Working with stakeholders from
each market, iniaves to help
each naon prosper from cruise
ship visits will be formulated,
which will in turn lead to greater
investment in infrastructure and
other tourist-friendly aracons.
Consultaons have already
begun, with Samoa, Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu and Tahi having
already met with SPTO about
their own objecves, with Fiji and
Kiriba to come later this month.
SPTO chief execuve ocer
Ilisoni Vuidreke said each naon
would have their own ideas to
best suit each desnaon.
“This strategy will target
priorised regional needs in cruise
tourism, taking into account
the varying stages of cruise
development in our member
countries,” Vuidreke said.
RCCL deal extensionROYAL Caribbean Cruises
Limited has extended the booking
period for the CLIA Cruise Week
deals of its three brands - Royal
Caribbean, Celebrity and Azamara
- which are now on sale for a
second week, closing on 19 Sep.
Across the lines, deals range
from onboard credit of up to
US$300 per stateroom to reduced
deposits on selected departures.A trade incenve oering a
top prize of a Mediterranean
cruise onboard Harmony of the
Seas for every booking made
during Cruise Week has also been
extended unl tomorrow.
Liberty back to normal
REGULAR scheduled service hasesumed onboard Carnival Liberty
aer an engine re in St Thomas
aw the ship cancel a cruise.
The ship departed yesterday
rom its San Juan, Puerto Rico
home port on its next scheduled
ailing aer receiving permission
rom the US Coast Guard.
Approx 1,500 passengers opted
o remain onboard the ship while
others took charter ights home.
Quarter of LindbladLINDBLAD Expedions Naonal
Geographic is oering savings of
25% on the 19-day “Rounding the
Cape” expedion which cruises
Chilean Patagonia and Argenna’s
Staten Island.
Priced from $20,980ppts the
oer is valid for departures ex
Sanago, Chile through unl 22
Oct - au.expedions.com .
Seatrade Asia datesA SECOND aempt at hosng
the Seatrade Cruise Asia forum in
Busan, South Korea will now take
place from 12-14 May 2016.
The event, to have been hosted
by the Busan Port Authority, was
cancelled at the eleventh hour
earlier this year (CW 11 Jun) due
to travel restricons imposed by
Korea because of Middle-East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Sunlover by StarlightGREAT Barrier Reef touring
rm Sunlover Reef Cruises has
unveiled its new product allowing
guests the chance to sleep under
the stars o the coast of Cairns.
The ‘Sunlover by Starlight’
experience takes guests 41km
to the Moore Reef Pontoon on
a two-day/one-night Reef stay
inclusive of all meals onboard and
a swag in which to sleep.
A maximum of 18 guests can
book the experience each day.
‘Sunlover by Starlight’ is priced
from $499 per person per night.
New Miami terminalTALKS are underway between
Royal Caribbean Cruises and
city ocials in Miami, Florida in
relaon to the construcon of a
new US$100 million terminal to
accommodate Oasis-class ships.
The cruise line is seeking a berth
of 400 metres capable of handling
the vessels by the end of 2018.
According to the Miami Herald ,
a preliminary vote on the proposal
is set for tomorrow, US me.
If approved, Royal Caribbean
would have rights on the terminal
for between 20 and 60 years.
When based in Florida, both of
RCI’s exisng Oasis-class ships
Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the
Seas sail from Fort Lauderdale.
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