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It’s happened again. Yesterday I read another article quoting a North American port official saying how strong their port’s demand for cruis...

This week, on two successive days, Princess Cruises released details of their 2016 programs in Europe and Alaska. Aside from the program inf...

There's evidence that at least some people in Alaska have figured out that their tourism industry is in trouble now and is headed for mo...

This week, Alaskans held another "tourism summit," and it shows they are now recognizing their tourism industry is heading into de...

After seeing the money rolling into nearby New Orleans and Mobile from the cruise industry, Gulfport has decided they want a cruise ship hom...

CND has often written about how the State of Alaska (with the voters' approval) is making it less and less profitable for cruise lines t...

Updated April 28, 8:30pm Late yesterday, the CDC "recommended" people avoid "nonessential" travel to Mexico. It appears ...

It's easy to find articles about there being a swine flu outbreak in Mexico, but is it safe to go on a cruise that calls at a Mexican po...

MSC Cruises reports that MSC Melody successfully evaded an attack by pirates Saturday evening (April 25, 2009) at approximately 7:35pm GMT (...

There was a compromise in the Alaskan legislature late last week that delayed until 2015 the implementation of more stringent wastewater sta...

Cruise lines recently announced cuts that would bring about 100,000 fewer passengers to Alaska in 2010. Part of the reason is that demand fo...

Earlier this week, the Anchorage Daily News published an editorial that, while it's a valid opinion, it also shows the wrong thinking in...

As we pointed out in a recent article in Cruise News Daily, Vancouver is the innocent victim in the cruise lines' reduction of cruises t...

Will your cruise ship sailing out of Miami be adding a call at a Cuban port anytime soon? No. The US news media is reporting that the Obama ...

For the first time in history, Alaska's lucrative tourism industry is going to begin shrinking next summer. Cruise lines are withdrawing...

Tuesday's announcement by Carnival Corp that they intend to decrease capacity in Alaska in 2010 wasn't specific about which brands a...

In today's conference call to discuss the last quarter's earnings, Carnival Corp chairman Micky Arison said the effects of Alaska...

There are two types of articles being written about the cruise industry lately. One is consumer-oriented and talks about what good deals the...

Over the last few weeks, much of the general news media has suddenly discovered the story of piracy of ships in the Gulf of Aden, a story wh...

In this CND article we looked at the reason why a cruise ship is almost never delivered late anymore, and why so many actually enter service...