Royal Caribbean International has added a feature to its agents-only Web site, CruisingPower.com that enables agents to promote themselves on the line’s consumer Web site, RoyalCaribbean.com.
At 160,000 gross registered tons, Royal Caribbean’s third and final Freedom-class ship, Independence of the Seas, will make history in November 2008 as the world’s largest cruise ship yet to make a transatlantic passenger voyage.
Travelers wishing to spend next winter in the sunny Caribbean can trade their parkas for piña coladas and snow shovels for snorkels, with Celebrity Cruises¹ latest slate of 2008 and 2009 cruises, which open for sale today.
With the splendor that characterizes the majesty of transatlantic cruise ship “Serenade of the Seas,” the liner from Royal Caribbean made intermediate port call in Casa de Campo, in the Dominican Republic’s east region.
Caribbean cruise pricing is showing slow improvement, while Alaska pricing is down and Europe remains strongest, according to a report from investment firm AG Edwards.
Cruise tourism promises to spur up the activity and the Dominican economy in general, prompting the Tourism Ministry and the private sector to team up to sell the Dominican Republic as a grand ports-of-origin destination.