Cruise News: Pulling up Anchors in 2012
Last year, cruise lines carried some 16.3 million passengers to ports around the globe. About 11 million of those cruisers hailed from the U.S. and given the 300 million person-count of the country, cruising penetration represents just a little more than 3 percent, according to statistics offered in Cruise Line International Association’s (CLIA) 2012 Cruise […]
On Cruise: A Talk with Uniworld’s Guy Young
By Bill Becken, Senior Cruise Editor Who is today’s cruise consumer and who is the customer of the future? How will cruise lines address and service them? What will new customers look for in future cruise products? Guy Young, CEO of Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, speaks to Travel-Intel.
Maui on Your Mind? Make it Wailea
Planning a trip to Maui? Any Maui trip should be stacked with Maui adventures all made convenient and quite luxurious by a stay at the Wailea Beach Villas at Wailea Beach. What makes a trip to Maui particularly poignant for families and romantic couples is the right location with the right kind of space at […]
Hawaii Tourism Seeing Stars
Hawaii, a destination that, only a few years ago, saw severe dips in tourism numbers, a nose dive in room rates, airline bankruptcies and lift reductions, and frighteningly grey horizons for tourism development, has rebounded like a patient from a coma now brimming with new life. January’s reports showed a 14% increase in Hawaii visitor […]
What it Takes – Omega World Travel Tales
When Gloria Bohan is asked how it happened that she went from diminutive school teacher to president and CEO of Fairfax, VA-based Omega World Travel, one of the country’s largest international travel agency operations, she has only one answer: “Accidentally. You never know when you are going to trip on opportunity.” In Bohan’s case it […]
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