Adweek reports that Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is searching for a new advertising agency. The Martin Agency has handled NCL’s "creative and media business" since 2011.
NCL reportedly spent $33 million in 2014, down from $45 million in 2013.
Adweek says that NCL’s plans to change its advertising agency "comes amid a search by competitor
"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer is a fan of Carnival Corporation (CCL).
He used to associate the word "disaster" with Carnival Cruise Lines. Between the Costa Concordia sinking, engine room fires, the Triumph "poop cruise," passengers sick with norovirus, the Arab Spring – it "seemed the company was doomed," says CNBC.
But Carnival has enjoyed a
National Geographical’s ombudsman Christopher Elliott just published the article which I wrote for Yahoo Travel tilted Is Cruising Safe? A Chilling Look at an Industry Under Siege.
Elliott’s article is titled Terrorists Target Cruise Ships — Here’s What You Need to Know Now.
He asks this question at the end of the article:
Is
Multiple news sources in Canada are reporting that a prominent retired doctor from Canada was violently murdered while on vacation in the Bahamas.
Canadian Broadcasting Cor[oration reports that Dr. Geoffrey Harding, age 88, was stabbed to death during a home-invasion robbery last Thursday.
CVT says that he was an accomplished family doctor who practiced in small
Cruise lines owe their crew members the absolute legal duty of providing medical treatment when the crew become sick or injured on the company’s cruise ships.
Pursuant to the “maintenance and cure” doctrine, the cruise line is required to provide “maintenance” (room and board) and “care” (medical care and treatment) to the point that the
Yesterday a cabin attendant discovered two cruise passengers dead in their cabin on the Holland America Line (HAL) Ryndam.
The proper procedure for the cruise line to follow is for the crew member(s) to immediately leave the cabin, lock the door and call security who, in turn, will secure the cabin and assign a
NBC’s Today show aired a special program this morning titled Why do some cruise ships lack lifeguards to watch children?
In my opinion, the answer is simple: cruise lines are cutting corners to increase profits. Plus, cruise lines face no legal consequence if the child dies. The cruise industry doesn’t face financial accountability because
News sources are reporting that a couple was found dead today aboard a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship that docked in Puerto Rico.
The local police said that the man and woman were sailing on the Ryndam and were in their 50’s and were from Cleveland, Ohio.
According to the news reports, no one
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger yesterday Wednesday from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship 95 miles east of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
The Grandeur of the Seas contacted the Coast guard yesterday afternoon, stating that a 71-year-old female passenger was suffering from abdominal pain.
The Coast Guard sent a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Elizabeth
Several readers have contacted me complaining about Norwegian Cruise Line’s new charges on certain cruise ships (Breakaway and Getaway).
One passenger wrote: "Ncl started (secretly) charging $7.95 for room service now?!? . . . enough is enough . . . So to go up from $0 to $8 is huge. I’ve never been
The Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. and Travel Pulse report that a cruise passenger on Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth died while attempting to board the cruise ship from a tender.
The accident occurred while the cruise ship was in the port city of Sihanoukville in Cambodia.
There are no details of the accident in either publication.
The NBC Today Show aired a special this morning on cruise ship germs titled Cruise ships may carry unwelcome passengers: Germs.
An undercover team went on an unidentified cruise ship (looks like a Royal Caribbean ship) to the Caribbean to find out "where germs may lurk aboard cruise ships." They used test swabs and
In an exclusive story, Cruise Law News has learned that cruise industry giant Carnival Corporation plans to incorporate its business in the United States (in Florida). Carnival intends to announce this historic development tomorrow, April 2nd, at Carnival’s headquarters in Miami.
Since 1972, Carnival has incorporated its business and registered its cruise ships in the
