Hurtigruten Group acquired a 24.9% stake in Ecuador's Metropolitan Touring, one of South America’s leading travel companies and a Galápagos Islands pioneer.

Albatros Expeditions’ Ocean Victory returned to the Port of Ushuaia yesterday after completing its 2021/22 Antarctic season uninterrupted despite cases of COVID-19 onboard.

Australian Pacific Touring’s 2022 Kimberley season is under way, with the 99-passenger Caledonian Sky sailing from Broome to Darwin on Monday.

Coral Adventurer has sailed from Fremantle for Broome to explore the Abrolhos and Coral Coast, and Coral Geographer has departed Broome on a 10-night Kimberley cruise.

New Zealand family-owned Heritage Expeditions’ 2023 coastal programme aboard the 18-passenger yacht Heritage Explorer includes a new seven-day itinerary taking in Hauraki Gulf and the Coromandel Peninsula.

Global adventurer, mountaineer and polar explorer Alison Levine will serve as the godmother for expedition ship Seabourn Venture.

Atlas Ocean Voyages' World Navigator and World Traveller will cover four continents in the late March through October 2023 period.

The finding of explorer Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, which sank in the Antarctic in 1915, is cause for great excitement the world over including in expedition cruising.

Australia’s Aurora Expeditions cancelled three Russian Far East voyages on the new Sylvia Earle and is reviewing other itineraries with Russia content.

Poseidon Expeditions and Quark Expeditions canceled their North Pole and Russian Arctic trips in 2022.