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Clia reveals dates for 2017 conference
Hollie-Rae Merrick
hollie@travelweekly.co.uk
Next year’s Clia Cruise Conference will take place in Southampton on May 24-26.
The first day will be held on
board the newly refurbished Queen Mary 2, with a trade fair in the evening. Conference sessions and a gala dinner will follow on May 25 at the Hilton At The Ageas Bowl. Royal Caribbean International’s Navigator of the Seas will host agents on May 26. There will be optional visits to Princess Cruises’ Crown Princess and Royal’s Independence of the Seas on May 27. Registration opens on
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CLIA’S CRUISE RELAY
Southampton 10-11.30am, September 23 9-10am, September 29 Kirkwall 12 noon-3pm, September 26 Ullapool 3.15-4.45pm, September 26 Edinburgh 1-3pm, September 27 Port of Tyne 9.30-11.30am, September 28 Bristol
2-4pm, September 29 Liverpool
12 noon-2pm, September 30 Portsmouth 11.30am-1pm, September 30
September 29 and the Clia team expects it to sell out following the success of this year’s event, which attracted more than 650 delegates. Clia UK & Ireland is also poised
to begin a ‘Cruise Relay’ tour of UK ports later this month. UK director Andy Harmer and
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events and training manager Adele Fitzpatrick-Foster will be travelling around the country to raise the profile of ex-UK and round-Britain cruising. They will also be spreading the word about Plan a Cruise Month in October. The tour begins in Dover on
September 23 and finishes in Portsmouth a week later (see box). Harmer said: “During the tour,
we’ll be joined by members of Clia’s executive committee, and we’re
encouraging agents to join us too.”
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travelweekly.co.uk 1 September 2016
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