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Click with Technology
■ Earn £30 for every Danube cruise booked
Balkan Holidays is offering agents £30 for every
10-night Danube river cruise they book for 2009.
The cruise starts in Vienna and includes Slovakia,
touts online cruise tool
Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, with
prices from £959 per person for cruise-only or
£1,195 including return flights. To claim the Caplin said: “Cruise booking online is definitely
Kay McLellan.
incentive email
sales@balkanholidays.co.uk TECHNOLOGY firm Click with Technology is to in its infancy. The tool is very much a research
with the booking reference. make the cruise industry its main focus over tool and not just a booking system, as the sector
the coming year following the launch of its has a high percentage of people wanting to speak
■ Royal Caribbean to base ship in Dubai online cruise booking system. to an adviser before booking. We want to offer
Royal Caribbean will base a ship in Dubai for Dan Caplin has been appointed to the board as many routes to booking as possible.
the first time in 2010. It will be the second major of directors to lead the expansion of the cruise “This system is the only one that offers
cruise company to deploy a ship from the emirate division, having overseen the establishment of so many cruise lines, with 16 on the system.
following the lead of Costa Cruises. Brilliance of Click with Technology’s search engine marketing It is a product that agents want. We specialise in
the Seas will begin sailing seven-night itineraries over the past three years. usability and we know what works.”
from Dubai from January to April 2010. The online cruise booking product provides Caplin said the booking system will be
agents with a system that hooks into Amadeus’s expanded with additional tools, such as Amadeus
■ Phoenix Holidays adds seven itineraries booking engine. Air, which is in development and will be launched
River cruise operator Phoenix Holidays has Click with Technology can white-label the by the end of the year. Further tools are to come
added seven itineraries to its latest brochure. product and Caplin said it was in talks with “quite in the future, allowing agents to book with sister
The European River Cruises brochure features a few big customers” about adopting the system. company Holiday Taxis, insurance and car hire.
new journeys on the Danube, Neckar, Saar and
Main rivers. Phoenix now offers a total of 25
cruises on four ships travelling along nine rivers
in eight European countries.
■ Portsmouth to build new passenger terminal
Portsmouth is hoping to attract more cruise lines
after planning approval was given for a new
passenger terminal. The city’s council has given
the green light to the £15 million project which
is due to open to the public in spring 2011.
■ Inside Cruise adds social tool to website
Cruising website Inside Cruise has introduced a
suite of social networking features to its cruise
information portal. With the cruise market
growing so quickly, web editor Laura Scott said
there was a gap in the market. “These great ON THE BRIDGE: Twenty agents joined NCL for a western Mediterranean cruise on
new features make Inside Cruise a true cruising Norwegian Gem. They included staff from Go Cruise, Thomas Cook, Bath Travel, Cruise
community.” Deals, Travel Counsellors, Midlands Co-op and Gill’s Cruise Centre.
■ Star Cruises unveils south-east Asia itinerary
Star Cruises has confirmed its new itineraries
around south-east Asia for this winter. Hurtigruten eyes business sector
SuperStar Libra will be alternating seven-night
cruises from Kuala Lumpur and Singapore from HURTIGRUTEN has introduced a “meetings and agents to consider the meeting and incentives
November to March 2009. SuperStar Virgo will events at sea” programme in a bid to capture industry which, she said, was growing at 13%
return to Singapore for two, three and five-night the growing number of UK business travellers a year.
cruises sailing around the Malaysian and seeking alternative conference venues. Hurtigruten’s “meetings and events at sea”
Thailand coastlines. SuperStar Aquarius will The Norwegian cruise specialist has earmarked programme includes the provision of meeting and
be based in Hong Kong and will sail four-night the UK as the main growth area for the burgeon- conference facilities in flexible, modular-style
tours calling at ports in China and Vietnam. ing market in cruise conferencing, with the meeting rooms onboard dedicated ships, with an
volume of UK customers overtaking the more auditorium seating up to 200 and segregated
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ttglive.com/cruise Kathryn Beadle, head of commercial, urged UK fleet can be joined in Bergen or Tromso.
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