Is CLIA Off Message? – Other Cruise News: UK Cruise Lines Could Be Breaking Competition Law – Norwegian vs Facebook
24/06/2013 Leave a comment
THE CRUISE EXAMINER at Cybercruises.com by Kevin Griffin
The Cruise Examiner for 24th June 2013
In remarks he made to Seatrade Insider earlier this month, Bob Dickinson, former president and chief executive of Carnival Cruise Lines, who has returned to Carnival Corp & plc as a consultant, suggested that Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) should be getting back to its old role of marketing the cruise industry. CLIA president Christine Duffy acknowledged as much in a speech she delivered last week at the CLIA Cruise360 conference in Vancouver, confirming CLIA’s continued commitment to travel agents. This was done to counter talk that it had changed from being a group focused on agents to a global lobbying organisation. In February, Norwegian Cruise Line and Facebook both listed on the Nasdaq, at similar opening prices of around $28. We look at what has happened since. And finally, we have a look at UK cruise operators and the law.
Table courtesy of Hospitality Net by Jonathan Barsky
On Thursday, June 13, in her last solo appearance before giving birth to the next heir to the British throne, Kate Middleton, more formally known as Her Royal Highness Catherine, Duchess of Wales, named Princess Cruises’ new flagship, the 142,714-ton Royal Princess, third of the name, in Southampton. We compare the new Italian-built ship to her predecessors, built in Finland and France. Meanwhile, P&O Cruises has been attracting criticism of its more recent fare structure that allows for two different classes of fare, with Vantage fares and Getaway fares.
