The good news about Cruise Market Watch is making the rounds and I wanted to share with you the excitement.
CSM Today, the official daily newsletter of Cruise Shipping Miami, highlights conference news, products and events for 5,000 attendees. I was pleased to write the lead article “Travel Agents Should Maximize Entrepreneurial Skills” in the Thursday, March 19, 2009 edition.
TTG’s Knowledge College is a UK based organization dedicated to travel agents. Its Knowledge Cruise courses help travel agents learn about an extensive range of cruise lines and suppliers. It was a privilege to be interviewed on page 15.
Over at RoyalCaribbeanFan.com we recently discussed a wide range of topics related to the business side of cruise industry in its “10 Questions” series.
Dario Rustico, Costa Cruises’ Director, Sales and Marketing of Pacific Asia Operations quoted Cruise Market Watch at the Arabian Travel Market 2009 seminar in Dubai March 24. The 2009 US $24.9 billion global cruise market and 2.4 percent rise (16 million) in global passengers carried were cited.
Lastly, on Gene Sloan’s Cruise Log Blog, we got some buzz going around the topic “Could you spend your retirement years cruising full time?“
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