Website: www.cruiseweekly.com.au | Phone: 1300 799 220 | Fax:1300 799 221| Email:[email protected]Page 1 Cruise WEEKLY Tuesday 15 Dec 2015 Cruise Weeklytoday Cruise Weekly today features three pages of all the latest cruise industry news plus a full page from: (click) • AA Appointments jobs Singles cruise success SOLO traveller s cruising on board Carnival Spiritfor the inaugural singlescruising.com.au trip have just returned from their nine night South Pacic voyage. About 90 passengers enjoyed hosted acvies and events as part of the singles group. Cruise Holidays md Les Farrar hailed the rst sailing out of Sydney as a great success. “There are many people out there who don’t want to be on a cruise by themselves and don’t normally have anyone to travel with,” Farrar said. “By joining our group they were able to mingle with like minded people and form new friendships immediately. “We have already set the next Singlescruising sailing date for 2016 and expect to start running more regular departures from then on,” Farrar added. QM2 Lisbon delay CUNARD’S Queen Mary 2was briey delayed this week as she cruised out of Lisbon, Portugal due to a small re which broke out in its gas turbine exhaust. According to Cruise Law Newsone of the vessel’ s cruise pods also malfunconed, with the ship now back on schedule for a 15 Dec trans-Atlanc departure from Southampton to New Y ork. Eight coins for Silversea’s Silver Muse CONSTRUCTION has started on Silversea Cruises’ Silver Muse with a milestone keel-la ying ceremony in Genoa, Italy. The ceremony is a marime tradion with welding a coin into the keel of the ship said to bring good luck during the build and to the captain and crew during her later life. Silversea has taken this one step further by welding eight coins into the keel of Silver Muse, with coins coming from each connent the line sails to as well as a specially designed Silver Muse commemorave coin. That means there’s a South African Rand, a US 50c piece, a Brazilian real, a Euro, a Singapore dollar, a special Antarcc Trust and of course a good old Australian dollar too. Silversea ceo Enzo Visone said the keel laying was a signicant milestone for the line, with Silver Museto sail throughout Europe, Canada, North and South America as well as the Caribbean, taking in more than 130 desnaons in 34 countries. The ship has 298 suites which can accommodate 596 guests. Passenger overboard A FEMALE passenger has gone missing othe Saga Sapphire while the ship was crossing the Atlanc Ocean last weekend. Saga has issued a statement conrming that aer searching the ship the 70-year-old Brish woman could not be found. The company is working in conjuncon with marime authories and the Saga Sapphire cruisehas turned round to conduct a search. The ship is currently on a 35 day voyage from Southampton to the Caribbean. Abu Dhabi cruise launch MSC Cruises has become the rst line to operate voyages from Abu Dhabi’s brand new cruise terminal, which ocially debuted on the weekend with a departure by MSC Musica. Located in the emirates’ Zayed Port, the 8,000 square metre terminal houses all key passenger facilies, retail outlets and a café. The architectural design of the new development is based on the UAE’s heritage and identy, with a view of the Louvre Museum on Saadiyat Island. The terminal took a year to build and is being hailed a landmark achievement for the growth of cruise tourism in the area. MSC Musicawill serve the region for the 2015/2016 cruise season which runs from now unl 03 April 2016. MEANWHILE the opening has also seen Ehad Airways become the rst Middle Eastern airline oering on-site airline check-in at a cruise terminal. Ehad and MSC are also oering special y-cruise packages, while EY’s desnaon management business, Hala Abu Dhabi, is also providing a porolio of eight unique guided shore excursio ns for MSC guests. Ehad chief commercial ocer Peter Baumgartner said the new terminal represented “our shared vision alongside our local partners to posion Abu Dhabi as a world- class transport hub.” “Cruising is an excing and fast growing sector of the travel industry and we look forward to helping develop this segment further with the expansion of our services from the brand new cruise terminal in Abu Dhabi, ” Baumgartner said. Many of the ground services will be handled by EY including return coach transfers between the airport & cruise terminal. Picturedabove from leat the launch are Sultan Al Dhaheri, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority’s acng execuve director tourism; Ehad’s Hareb Al Muhairy, Khaled Almehairbi and Peter Baumgartner; MSC Cruises ceo Gianni Onorato, Captain Mohamed Al Shamisi, Abu Dhabi Ports ceo; and Noura Al Dhaheri, Abu Dhabi Ports cruise terminal manager.
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8/20/2019 Cruise Weekly for Tue 15 Dec 2015 - MSC Cruises, passenger overboard, singles cruise, Chimu Adventures Antarc…
trend had been climbing sharplyover the past 18 months.
“We’ve really seen a big change
in consumer behaviour over the
past couple of years. Antarcca is
denitely back on the bucket list
for many travellers,” he said.
“The GFC had a major impact
on demand however that’s really
turned around now as people
have decided there’s no point
delaying their travel any longer.”
Looking at the company’s strong
forward bookings Carter said itwould seem customers are more
condent about the future than
in previous years.
There are sll limited cabins le
on Chimu’s Antarcc program for
next year, but Carter is predicng
they will ll up fast.
Among the most popular
departures isChimu’s Classic
Antarcca 11 day
round trip from
Ushuaia, Argenna,
the world’s
southernmost city.
As well as
standard cruises
Chimu will operate
a number of special
guest departures
for 2017, including an Antarcc
trip with Samuel Johnson,the popular Australian actor
behind the breast cancer charity
Love Your Sister , plus another
adventure with much-loved
media personalies and serious
Antarcc fans Andrew Denton
and Jennifer Byrne.
This will be the couple’s 11th
trip to the frozen connent.
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Cruise & Coast 2016/17
GRAND Pacic Tours partneringwith Celebrity Cruises has a newbrochure with tours combininga cruise aboard Celebrity Solstice and a luxury coach tour, withdepartures Nov 2016 – Feb 2017.
Cruise destinations includethe majestic ords of Milford,Doubtful and Dusky Sounds,Dunedin, Akaroa, Wellington,Tauranga, the Bay of Islands andAuckland.
The land tours aim to givetravellers the complete NZexperience and see key icons notincluded on the cruise.
Victoria renovationYANGTZE River operator
Victoria Cruises has announcedupgrades for its six-year-old
Victoria Jenna, to ensure the
vessel remains at the forefront of
the Chinese cruise sector.
The vessel will rejoin the eet in
Apr 2016 sailing the Three Gorges
Highlight inerary.
Victoria Cruises’ 2016 program
includes six weekly departures
both upstream from Yichang (four
nights) and downstream from
Chongqing (three nights) on the
Three Gorges Highlight trip.There’s also the six or eight
night Grand Yangtze Discovery
voyage which sails the full
navigable length of the river on
the ve star Victoria Sophia.
Island Escape add-onsISLAND Escape Cruises has
launched package deals for
its new Tahian Aair cruises,
adding arrival transfers, one
night’s accommodaon and
domesc ight connecons.
The addional items are
included in the gross Island
Escape cruise fares, but if agents
wish to package themselves there
will be a credit of NZ$750 per
person applicable.
New Star presidentGENTING Hong Kong has
announced the appointment of
Ang Moo Lim as president of Star
Cruises, taking over from the
line’s acng president, Genng
HK ceo Tan Sri Lim Kok.
It’s an expansion of his exisng
role which also sees him as the
rm’s execuve vice president
of sales, markeng and hotelsas well as being country head
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