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Canadian soprano to christen Avalon's new ship
26 FEB 2010: Avalon Waterways’ new river cruise ship, the Avalon
Felicity, will be christened next month in the Netherlands by award
winning Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, who was most recently
seen and heard around the world as she sang at the Olympic opening
ceremonies. Brueggergosman’s magnificent soprano sound has been
described as “a superb voice capable of just about everything.” She is
now a major international talent, who also won a Juno Award for
Classical Album of the Year in 2008.
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Passengers ill on Caribbean cruise
26 FEB 2010: Celebrity Cruises says about 350 people are responding
well to medication after getting sick on a cruise to the Caribbean that
departed from South Carolina. The ship sailed out of Charleston last
week and it was not known whether any Canadians were on board.
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Change is on the way
26 FEB 2010: If you read this yesterday in Today, we apologise, but
for those of readers who just get Cruise News First we want to give you
a heads up on things to come. This is your last issue under this brand. Beginning next Friday you will get Cruise Industry Today –
bigger, better, newsier, more interactive. And there will be other
changes too – and not just to the website. Big ones. Changes that
might surprise you, but changes we guarantee you will find useful,
interesting and informative.
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Tampa too, says Norwegian Cruise Lines
26 FEB 2010: Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that its 2011/12
winter/spring deployment includes two new seasonal homeports: Tampa,
Florida and Rome (Civitavecchia), making it the first time Norwegian
has initiated voyages from these cities. In addition, for the first
time since 1999 the cruise line will visit Israel.
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Passionate about the cruise industry
Vanessa Lee
26 FEB 2010: I have been in LA these last few days and even though I
have been zooming around a fair bit I have not managed to find George
Clooney and have not laid my eyes on even one Hollywood star. Which is
just fine as I am really not into that kind of thing anyway.
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Mikhail Gorbachev and Condoleeza Rice head Symposium on Silver Wind
19 FEB 2010: Silversea Cruises has announced its collaboration with
San Francisco-based World Leaders Travel to host the 2010 World Leaders
Symposium, a Black Sea voyage aboard Silver Wind headlined by former
Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and other dignitaries.
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Electronic documentation from Seabourn
18 FEB 2010: The Yachts of Seabourn has introduced a convenient,
eco-friendly alternative for guests who do not wish to receive printed
preliminary and/or final cruise documents by mail. “Click & Sail”
provides a single e-pass document via the company’s website, which can
be printed and presented at check-in for embarkation. Complete cruise
document information is available for review online at any time, and
guests can select any pages to download and store on their own
computers or print.
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Carnival will buy 2 ships for its Princess Cruises
19 FEB 2010: Cruise operator Carnival Corp. said this week it has
agreed to acquire two ships for its Princess Cruises Brand. Italian
shipbuilder Fincantieri will build two 3,600-passenger cruise ships,
scheduled to enter service in the spring of 2013 and the spring of 2014.
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Camera recovered from ocean after fifteen months
19 FEB 2010: A Spanish fisherman, Benito Estevez was trawling the ocean
last month when he discovered a camera in his nets. Though the camera
was damaged beyond repair, the photo memory card was intact. The
images showed the QE2 in the background and Estevez contacted Cunard
and the BBC who amazingly managed to trace the owners.
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Taking advice from the Great One
Vanessa Lee
19 FEB 2010: This is an issue that has amazed me for years. What is it
about our industry that makes us almost scared, even ashamed, to either
ask our clients to pay a fee for our professional services, and perhaps
even more important, to actually ask clients for their business?
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