NEWS IN BRIEF
NCL Early Booking Sale offers up to £200 off
Norwegian Cruise Line’s 2018 Early Booking Sale offers up to £200 off per stateroom. Bookings for worldwide sailings from April 2018 made before the end of August will save £50 per studio, £100 per inside and oceanview stateroom and £200 on balcony staterooms, mini- suites, suites and The Haven. Deposits are also cut by £50.
ncl.co.uk
Voyages reveals new Cuba and Jamaica cruise tours
Voyages to Antiquity has unveiled two 13-14 day cruise- tours in Cuba and Jamaica for 2018. The all-inclusive five-day land tour of Jamaica is added to the Highlights of Cuba sailing on Aegean Odyssey and includes visits to Montego Bay, Dunn’s River Falls and Kingston, with five-star accommodation during the land tour, from £3,945.
voyagestoantiquity.com
Saga unveils impressions of new ship Spirit of Discovery
Saga Cruises has released artist’s impressions of the library, spa and 430-seat theatre planned for its new boutique ship Spirit of Discovery. The library has been based on artisan coffee shops.
saga.co.uk
Club Royal aims for 15,000 with site makeover
Natasha Salmon
natasha.salmon@
travelweekly.co.uk
Royal Caribbean’s agent loyalty programme has had a makeover as the line targets 15,000 members by the end of the year.
The Club Royal website has had
a design refresh including a new colour scheme, banners, images and its own icons.
Agents can also earn £10 for
every friend referred to join the loyalty club and will also receive a 20% discount code for Jamie’s Italian, a restaurant that features on Royal’s Oasis-class ships. Nicki Lewis, head of sales support and planning, said: “We
Carnival to pay UK agents commission on cruise credits
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RIVER TRIVIA: Offers extended! Due to popular demand, Scenic’s FREE private door-to-door chauffeur transfer offer on 2018 cruises has been extended until August 15. Book your customers’ all-inclusive river cruise now for huge savings of up to £1,650 per couple on our eight-day Highlights of the Rhine cruise.
Carnival Cruise Line will pay UK agents commission on future cruise credits applied to new bookings. Iain Baillie, vice-president UK
and international sales, said: “As part of our Travel Agents Rock promise, we continue to look at ways to enhance earnings and profitability for our travel agent partners who work so very hard in promoting and booking Carnival Cruise Line to their customers. “We continue to find forward- thinking initiatives such as this to demonstrate our support for [the trade’s] ongoing commitment.” The change means the line will
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pay commission on the full value of a cruise in which a passenger uses a future cruise credit to pay for part or all of the sailing. Previously, the line calculated commission on the price of the
cruise after the credit was applied.
carnival.co.uk
“We are not changing the fundamentals of the site, because our travel partners love the simplicity”
have been working on this for the last six months and we are always looking to evolve Club Royal. “We are not changing the fundamentals of the site, because we know it works, and our travel partners love the simplicity. “Our membership is about
12,400 at the moment, which is bigger than we ever thought it could be. But now we are aiming for 15,000 by the end of this year
NEW LOOK: Royal’s website has new logos and icons
and hope to reach this with our refer-a-friend incentive.” The website makeover will also
feature branded icons to signal events and incentives, as well as specific areas on the site. Other new features include a stamp-style logo and new fonts and colours. Royal Caribbean will announce
its next mega-fam competition in August for 15 agents to attend in a yet-to-be-announced location. The new website and refer-a- friend incentive was due to go live
today (July 20).
royalcaribbean.co.uk
Uniworld offers fully inclusive sailings with transfers and flights
Uniworld is offering fully-inclusive sailings including airfares and home-to-airport transfers for the first time. The Masterpiece Collection combines the line’s all-inclusive river cruises with return flights and chauffeured transfers. The programme is offered for
all departure dates on selected 2018 itineraries including Gems of Northern Italy; Splendours of Italy; and Remarkable Rhine. Prices start from £2,699. Bookings must be made by
September and can be combined
with a 10% early-booking offer.
uniworld.com
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