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Virgin opens registration for FirstMates agent portal


Harry Kemble harry.kemble@travelweekly.co.uk


Virgin Voyages has opened registration for FirstMates.com, its dedicated agent online platform.


The website will be the line’s


digital home for UK agents, allowing them to learn, engage and do business with Virgin Voyages. irtate wic wi officiay


launch on February 5, will offer downloadable digital and in-store marketing materials, and an interactive learning section. Virgin Voyages will start an “immersive” learning campaign called Cabin Fever on February 6, giving details about cabins and faciitie on firt i Scarlet Lady. Agents will be able to make bookings for 2020 sailings through FirstMates fromFebruary 14. All agents registered with FirstMates.com by February 13 will be entered in a competition to have tea with Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group. Stacy Shaw, vice-president of


NCL unveils sailings and homeports for 2020-21 programme


Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Joy will sail from Miami for the


firt tie in winter . It will join sister ship Norwegian


Encore at the Florida port, offering fie to eenday aribbean


sailings from October 24, 2020. Norwegian Encore will reposition


fro it firt er eaon in New York to run seven-day western Caribbean cruises as well as longer


NORWEGIAN JOY: The NCL vessel will sail from Miami for first time


trips through the Panama Canal. Norwegian Escape will


homeport in Port Canaveral for te firt tie fro oeber 21, 2020, sailing eastern


30travelweekly.co.uk3 January 2019 LAUNCH: Scarlet Lady will set sail in 2020 as Virgin Voyages’ first vessel Feb 14


Date from which agents can book through FirstMates


sales and business development for Virgin Voyages, said: “We aim to be brilliant to do business with, and we are calling all travel sellers looking for a fresh travel option for their customers and a simple


approach to do business to join us on our journey as a FirstMate.” Virgin Voyages is building three


ships, due to launch in 2020, 2021 and 2022.


Last month, the line revealed


plans to build a cruise terminal at ortiai and confired it wod add a fourth, €700 million, ship to it anned feet. The line said it would reveal further details of Scarlet Lady’s onboard experience ahead of


February 14. firstmates.com


and western Caribbean itineraries. Following a summer season in Miami, Norwegian Breakaway will return to New Orleans on November 22, 2020, to sail seven-


day western Caribbean cruises. Norwegian Epic will sail from


Puerto Rico, Norwegian Getaway and Norwegian Gem from New York, Norwegian Jade from Tampa


and Norwegian Pearl from Miami. Norwegian Bliss will run cruises


from Los Angeles; Norwegian Jewel will serve Australia and New Zealand; while Norwegian Star will


sail in South America. ncl.com


CARNIVAL MIRACLE: Ship will sail ex-San Francisco and San Diego


Carnival Cruise Line to make first sailings from San Francisco


Carnival Cruise Line will offer cruises from San Francisco for the


firt tie in  wit Carnival Miracle operating voyages to


Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico. Carnival Miracle will also return


to San Diego for a winter 2020-21 schedule of three to 15-day voyages, while Carnival Panorama will make its debut from Long Beach in December 2019. Christine Duffy, Carnival Cruise


Line president, said: “Carnival is the number-one cruise operator from the west coast, and these new programmes from San Francisco and San Diego, as well as the


deployment of the new Carnival Panorama from Long Beach, ea oe for or confidence in growing this important market.” The inaugural San Francisco schedule begins on March 19, 2020, with Carnival Miracle offering four-day voyages to Ensenada, Mexico, in the spring and er  fieday and i day cruises to Ensenada, Catalina Island and San Diego in the spring. It will set sail from San Francisco on a 15-day Hawaii cruise on April 16, 2020, and will also offer a summer schedule of 10-day Alaska sailings. Cruise-only prices start at £434 for a four-day voyage to


Ensenada on April 2, 2020. carnival.com


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