Asia & Australasia

Seabourn Pursuit will make the company’s first expeditions in the South Pacific between March and October next year.

‘Australia will welcome 70 cruise ships over the 2023-24 season, which is well above the 60 or so scheduled to visit in 2019-20,’ Cruise Lines International Association MD Australasia Joel Katz told delegates at Cruise360 in Brisbane on Thursday.

Almost 650 members of the Australasia cruise community converged in Brisbane on Thursday for the first Cruise Lines International Association Australasia Cruise360 to be held outside of Sydney since the inaugural event in 2014.

Princess Cruises’ local partnerships programme is funding Dunedin-based Natures Wonders, an organisation helping to safeguard New Zealand’s iconic wildlife.

The Australian coordinator of the International Transport Workers Federation, Ian Bray, claims Australian Pacific Touring (APT) owes A$2m in unpaid crew wages.

The South Australian Tourism Commission has secured the 2024 Australian Cruise Association annual conference, it was announced at the close of this year’s conference in Wollongong on Thursday.

Delegates at the Australian Cruise Association 2023 annual conference on Thursday were told that, like this year’s theme, it is ‘full steam ahead,’ with predictions for a record 2023-24 southern summer season.