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Royal Caribbean gets new CFO as veteran departs
TransportThe top finance job at Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises is in new hands. The world’s second-largest cruise ship company announced Thursday that Brian Rice, who is retiring in spring of 2014, would no longer serve as chief financial officer, a job he has held since 2006. With 24 years at the company, Rice will remain [...]
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Best travel ads this week: Holland argues it’s cooler than Brooklyn
TransportTrave ads seek to inspire and excite viewers into booking a trip. The methods used to elicit such sentiments include fast-paced music, flashy images, and emotional voiceovers; and ultimately they aim to convince viewers that a better time is just a plane ride away. This week Holland defends its traditional way of life as the [...]
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River cruise line Viking adds first ocean voyages with two new ships
TransportViking Cruises Ltd. ordered two vessels to start an ocean cruise business, a first for the company, which has focused on river voyages, Chairman Torstein Hagen said. The 928-passenger ships are being built by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani Spa and will sail beginning in 2015 and 2016, respectively, on European itineraries, Hagen, who leads Woodland [...]
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Royal Caribbean and TUI drum up cruise interest with heavy metal voyage
TransportMiland Petrozza, the front man of German thrash metal veterans Kreator, is more used to his fans wading through mud and sleeping in tents than coming to his concerts from an afternoon of shuffle board. Yet when he shrieked the lyrics “let there be darkness, let there be blood tonight” across the decks of luxury [...]
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Court rejects Costa Concordia captain’s manslaughter plea bargain
TransportProsecutors rejected a plea bargain offer by the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy’s west coast last year with the loss of 32 lives, lawyers said on Tuesday. Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. He has admitted making mistakes but says he should [...]
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Carnival Cruise Lines won’t have ships in Europe in 2014
TransportCarnival Cruise Lines is to send a letter to the UK trade today telling them it will have no ships in Europe next year. The iconic U.S. cruise line which had two ships in Europe this year - one sailing from Dover, the other from Barcelona and Venice - said it could not risk having ships in [...]
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Best travel ads this week: German perfectionism to quirky explorations
DigitalThis week Lufthansa pokes fun at Germans, Expedia takes viewers around the world with a Wes Anderson-inspired tour, a Baltic cruise company tugs heartstrings, and two more videos provide a bit of Friday escapism. FOR ALL OF OUR SKIFTADS OF THE WEEK COLLECTION, CHECK OUT OUR ARCHIVES HERE. Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa pokes fun at [...]
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Rome tour boat operators won’t cruise this summer: Tiber too dirty
TransportVisitors to Rome this year won’t be able to cruise along the Tiber River, which weaves through the city, because it has become “strewn with rubbish,” according to a representative of Rome Boats, the company that controls the river tours. In an interview with AFP, Rome Boats’ Mauro Pica Villa said there would be no [...]
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Carnival’s troubled Triumph leaves Alabama for repairs in the Bahamas
TransportThe Carnival Triumph is headed back to sea three months after limping into port following an engine room fire. The cruise ship left the Alabama Cruise Terminal in Mobile under its own power Wednesday after extensive work to repair damage from the fire. Miami-based Carnival says Triumph is headed to Freeport, Bahamas, for more repairs [...]
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Rising number of U.S. cruise ships cited for sanitation violations
TransportMore cruise ships are being hit by federal inspectors with unsatisfactory ratings for sanitation, and for the first time in recent memory, the majority of the cited vessels are operated by major U.S. cruise lines. Already in the first quarter of this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program has [...]
