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We snapped a few delegates out and about at Cruise360 in Sydney last week.

• Caroline Edwards, YOU Travel & Cruise Bethlehem; Mandy Herd, YOU Travel & Cruise Orewa; Kathryn Manihera, Fortis Travel; Kiri Martin, YOU Travel & Cruise Orewa; Monett Johnston, YOU Travel & Cruise Whitianga
• Astrid Richardson, Envoyage Australia; Andrew Bowman, Guy Flynn, both NZ Travel Brokers; Danielle Galloway, Flight Centre Travel Group
• Kelly-Ann Thomas, House of Travel Lower Hutt; Anji Montgomerie, Regent Seven Seas Cruises; Fay Atkins, House of Travel Wellington City
• At the Crusie360 cocktail event in Doltone House… Julia Hindman (centre), Flight Centre NZ, with Rachel Harrigan and Lauren McAlpine, both Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
• At Cruise360 last week – Steve Labroski, itravel Australia; Steve Richards, AmaWaterways; Jeff Leckey, House of Travel
• Annabelle Brown, Alan Wilcock, both PONANT Explorations; Richard Fletcher, Fine Travel

Two back-to-back ship arrivals marked the start of the Tauranga cruise season last week, as the region prepares to welcome up to 230,000 passengers and crew over the next seven months.

New Zealand’s summer cruise season officially opened yesterday with the arrival of Crown Princess into Waitematā Harbour.

World Journeys has savings of up to 20% on select departures of two of its most popular Croatia packages. 

Viking has released a number of new  dates for ocean cruise itineraries for late 2023 and early 2024, including those that cover Scandinavia, The Mediterranean, Alaska, The Caribbean, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It has also launched two new combination cruise itineraries in Scandinavia.

‘The new departure dates are for some of our most popular cruise itineraries and provide more choice and certainty for travellers to plan ahead,’ says Michelle Black, managing director of Viking ANZ.

French Polynesia is repositioning its cruise industry in favour of ships with small and medium capacity.

A release from Tahiti Tourisme says the destination will ‘reposition around four axis’, applicable from 1 January 2022.

Firstly it will favour year-round turnaround ships based in French Polynesia, of small and medium capacities (700 passengers).

The New Zealand Cruise Association (NZCA) says it is imperative not to ‘waste the next month or two’ and wants close collaboration with government on what its expectations are from cruise – in the short, medium and longer terms.

The statement comes after the Prime Minister announced the continuing suspension of cruising in New Zealand until at least the end of September.

Embarkation on cruise ships is likely to be much quicker as cruise lines adopt more self check in technology and paperless documeyation post the Covid crisis, says one leading cruise practitioner in New Zealand.

Jeff Leckey, general manager cruise with House of Travel Group, says the tendency of many people to turn up early for their cruise check in has meant long waits at the cruise terminal and winding queues to get to check in desks.

Jeff Leckey, general manager cruise at House of Travel Group, is unlikely to mourn the probable passing (at least for a while) of cruise buffets.

‘When local cruise line P&O did away with the buffet a few years ago and replaced it with The Pantry, there was a sudden intake of breath from traditionalists,’ Leckey says in a Hoot Cruises Blog. ‘Could they seriously

Wild Earth Travel has a limited, two cabins only offer for a Sub Antarctic Islands cruise on board PONANT’s Le Bellot.

Departing 29 December 2020 and 8 February 2021, the 15-day cruise is priced at $13,495pp (down from $18,205).

Departing Auckland, Le Bellot sails to the Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Campbell Island, Auckland Islands, Macquarie Island and The Snares before passengers disembark in Dunedin.