People & Opinions

26-year veteran expedition leader, Pierre Thomas, will take on the director of expedition operations role at Swan Hellenic.

Tom Brady, most recently with Silversea Cruises, and Joseph Mujwit, formerly of Royal Caribbean Group, signed on with Vikand Solutions, a maritime medical operations and public health provider.

Cruise marketing veteran Kari Tarnowski, most recently with Crystal Cruises, was named SVP marketing for American Queen Steamboat Co.

Royal Caribbean International put out the call for volunteers to go on its test cruises.

Richard Fain said COVID-19 on the first Caribbean cruise since the pandemic shutdown seems to be handled well and that the industry can learn from this.

Lindblad Expeditions appointed Sotheby's veteran David Goodman as its chief commercial and marketing officer.

Season two of cruise industry sales veteran Denella Ri'chard's travel show focuses on vacationing in a 'COVID-conscious way.'

Cruise companies can leverage their existing technologies to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks on board ships, said Dan Pearson, co-founder and ceo, Canopy Tools Group while outlining what he claims is a biosecure framework for cruise vessels.

A study by Riviera River Cruises found 34% of past ocean cruisers are considering taking a river cruise instead in 2021.

Argentine journalist Ricardo Marengo, whose Noticias de Cruceros is a leading source of cruise news in Spanish, died unexpectedly Thursday night. He was 58.