A new survey has suggested that both luxury cruises and river cruises are rapidly growing in popularity among cruise-goers.
Almost one quarter of travel agencies reported that consumers were moving towards luxury cruises, said the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) on August 10.
A British judge this week sentenced Claudie Anglin of Birmingham, England to more than 10 years in prison for his role in the cocaine smuggling scheme, one of the largest ever documented on a cruise ship.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection says a foul-smelling plume of liquid that filled a dock area in Bar Harbor, Maine last month after a visit by an American Cruise Lines vessel was sewage, not "grey water" from sinks and showers as originally reported, according to a local news outlet.
The Sapphire Princess operating in Alaska has struck a whale.
The dead whale, believed to be a juvenile humpback, was discovered on the bulbous bow of the 2,670-passenger ship as she cruised from Ketchikan to Juneau.
While some beach destinations in the Gulf region have experienced visitor cancellations related to the oil spill, there's one sector of the travel industry that has not been affected yet and that's the cruise industry.
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