Casting a Wider Net

Cruise lines search the world for entertainers, and if you check their websites, most will have a section where they are recruiting talent, and they will tell you where they are holding auditions. Most of the time, they are within a certain geographic range of the home office. But Carnival’s German brand AIDA is casting a wider net, because they need a lot of talent.

On an average day, AIDA has entertainers on 24 stages on 10 ships. This year they need to hire 570 entertainers of every type - singers, dancers, and specialty acts - but this number is higher than normal because they also have to staff the entertainers aboard their new flagship, AIDAprima which will enter service in April, adding three more stages to the inventory. To do this they are searching the world from Hamburg to Los Angeles - and lots of places in between.

The complete story appeared in the January 27 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Norwegian Planning Big European Summer

Norwegian Cruise Line summer European program next year (summer 2017) is going to expand by way of the number of ships and by taking one of their newest and largest ships to the market in northern Europe.

It will be the largest European deployment in Norwegian’s history.

The complete story appeared in the January 26 edition of Cruise News Daily.

A Smaller Slice

The cruise industry is like a giant pie. When one market’s slice of the pie gets bigger, someone else’s gets smaller. Even if the pie itself gets bigger, some markets’ slices get smaller.

We have written frequently about how the cruise industry is sending additional ships to Australia and China, but we haven’t written about the market whose slice is getting smaller - strangely it’s a market that used to be one of the strongest.

The complete story appeared in the January 25 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Raising the Bar

A new menu is coming to Holland America Line, but not the one you think of in the dining room.

This is a new bar menu, thanks to a new partnership with Master Mixologist Dale DeGroff.

The complete story appeared in the January 25 edition of Cruise News Daily.

A Nose Worth Its Weight in Coke

When Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas arrived in San Juan Sunday, US Customs and Border Protection agents were doing a routine inspection of the cabins when the canine alerted to a piece of luggage in one of the cabins. They ended up finding 24.25 pounds, valued at more than $300,000, and detaining seven people connected to the luggage.

Details appeared in the January 25 edition of Cruise News Daily.