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Three years ago, Captain Gunstein Langset and a tiny crew set out from Christmas Island on a fishing boat. As Norwegian Cruise Line’s senior port captain, [...]
This year’s Wave produced barely a ripple on the collective shores of the North American cruise industry. Unlike the last few years, one-day booking records went unbroken. Keyboards in the cruise line public relations departments heralded no headlines such as this one last year: “Carnival Cruise Lines Breaks One-Week Reservations Record Two Weeks In A [...]
Now more than three decades old, the North American cruise industry is attracting many fresh faces, some to fill newly created positions, others to replace the old guard. High profiles executives, such as Holland America Line’s Linda Ehlenberger and Royal Caribbean International’s Mike Applebaum, recently resigned their long-held posts as vice presidents of sales for [...]
As day breaks on France’s Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard, situated at the mouth of the Loire River, the massive hull of the Queen Mary 2 casts a long shadow. The tallest, longest, and most expensive [...]
Got an hour to spare before boarding Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 in Southampton, England? Walk several blocks from the cruise ship terminal to the Duke of Wellington pub. We did, and what we found in the 15th-century pub located at 36 Bugle Street was a convivial maritime setting, stone fireplaces with logs blazing and [...]
“Over the years, I’ve grown very fond of travel agents, and now I find myself wondering how on earth [...]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s graduating class walked without senior Charles Bishop Kuralt in the spring of 1955. The 20-year-old, who at age 16 had enrolled with an intent to major in history, had been too busy in his role as editor of the student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, to bother [...]
How do we define our heroes? Webster’s Dictionary tells us they are mythological or legendary figures “endowed with great strength, courage or ability.” Certainly our militia, our firefighters, our policemen and others who face great danger with dauntless courage fit that definition, and you’ll meet at least one of those folks, Daniel Johnson, on the [...]
Cruise line executives have long contended that they compete not against one another but against the larger vacation market. That argument, in fact, allowed Carnival Corporation to pass regulatory and antitrust hurdles in acquiring P&O Princess in 2002. In a story that is now well known throughout the industry, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was left [...]
Will the 2006 Wave Season be recorded as a good sales period for cruises or a disappointing one? The answer depends.
“There are big Wave Seasons and there are disappointing Wave Seasons, but the Wave Season of 2006 might just go down as the least clear cut,” reads the industry trade Cruise Week. The Miami Herald [...]
Cruise line executives have long contended that they compete not against one another but against the larger vacation market. That argument, in fact, allowed Carnival Corporation to pass regulatory and antitrust hurdles in acquiring P&O Princess in 2002. In a story that is now well known throughout the industry, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was left [...]
Will the 2006 Wave Season be recorded as a good sales period for cruises or a disappointing one? The answer depends.
“There are big Wave Seasons and there are disappointing Wave Seasons, but the Wave Season of 2006 might just go down as the least clear cut,” reads the industry trade Cruise Week. The Miami Herald [...]
No matter what your obsession, there’ a theme cruise for you. Star Trek fan? Charles Datin, whose father built the models for the original Star Trek series, operates Cruise Trek, billed as “The Premier Trek Vacation Featuring Trek Actors & Guests.” Feel free to dress for his New England and Canada Cruise Trek, beginning June [...]
Small ship operator Cruise West launches its first-ever Japan itineraries in 2006. The new “Japan Unveiled” itinerary will run March through October on the company’ all-suite flagship, Spirit of Oceanus. The 13- and 16-night cruises begin at $5,349 per person, double occupancy and promise to take passengers behind the cultural curtain to the “insider’s Japan [...]
Special to The Denver Post
Three years ago, Captain Gunstein Langset and a tiny crew set out from Christmas Island on a fishing boat. As Norwegian Cruise Line’s senior port captain, [...]
In this age of e-commerce and warehouse-size superstores, Luther Clegg is something of an anomaly. While the Greensboro-resident remains part of the retail revolution, the mechanism that drives his merchandise is not bottom-line pricing or the World Wide Web. It is a 1977 Buick. You see, Luther Clegg still peddles his wares the old-fashioned way: [...]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s graduating class walked without senior Charles Bishop Kuralt in the spring of 1955. The 20-year-old, who at age 16 had enrolled with an intent to major in history, had been too busy in his role as editor of the student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, to bother [...]
“When I went off to college,” says Charles Frazier, author of the blockbuster bestseller Cold Mountain, [...]
