People & Opinions

Ethel Blum, journalist and travel authority who wrote the first cruise guidebook and hosted a pioneering radio talk show about travel, died early Monday at her Miami Beach home. She was 98.

Terry Thornton, who created Carnival Cruise Line's first revenue management system and the largest network of US homeports for any brand, is among those leaving in the recent COVID-19 cutbacks.

Monaco-based Italian naval architect Stefano Pastrovich has created  X-Expedition – a new hybrid design featuring superyacht-inspired interiors and Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion targeted at ‘New X-travellers.’

Simone Tommaso Maraschi is the new joint md of Cruise Gate Hamburg (CGH), which oversees cruise terminal operations and international cruise marketing in Hamburg.

Having made a tremendous mark on Princess Cruises over decades, EVP Rai Caluori is bowing out to a standing ovation.

With the launch of SustainableShips.com and a livestream interview series, 'The Future of Cruising,' Landry & Kling aims to be an influencer in 'greening' the cruise industry.

Cruising's full stop is painful but provides time to reset long-term priorities — and sustainability should top the list, V.Ships Leisure leaders suggest.

Surprising news from Seattle — Holland America Line President Orlando Ashford and Seabourn President Rick Meadows both announced their departures at the end of May.

Finn Partners' Virginia Sheridan, managing partner, North America travel, is a public relations expert with vast cruise industry expertise. Her commentary on what it will take for cruising to survive the coronvirus pandemic is reprinted here, by...

Shore excursions experts/business consultants Larry Stauffer and Tom Anderson formed Destinations Together, a platform for information and collaboration among Caribbean tour operators.