By    James Shillinglaw,  Feb 26, 2021,  (post a comment)  (9 comments) ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail   Did a bipartisan group of congressmen come up with a solution to allow major cruise lines to sail to Alaska this season after all? Members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sent a letter to the Canadian ambassador to [...]

Your Insider Travel Report Insider Video: How Royal Caribbean’s $40 Million Loan Program for Travel Agencies Works   By    Alan Fine,  Feb 24, 2021,  (post a comment)  (1 comments) ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail   Vicki Freed, Royal Caribbean International's senior vice president of sales, trade support and service, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about [...]

    Royal Caribbean Group’s eagerly anticipated “Pay it Forward” $40 million loan program for travel advisors, which was first unveiled in December, is finally open for applications. As part of the second phase of RCL Cares, the program has a dedicated platform on www.CruisingPower.com, Royal Caribbean’s travel agency website, where [...]

by Daniel McCarthy / February 16, 2021 As the cruise industry in the United States continues to await guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another company has pushed back its potential restart. On Tuesday morning, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), which includes NCL, Oceania, [...]

By Tariro Mzezewa Feb. 4, 2021Updated 10:47 a.m. ET Among governments and those in the travel industry, a new term has entered the vocabulary: vaccine passport. One of President Biden’s executive orders aimed at curbing the pandemic asks government agencies to “assess the feasibility” of linking coronavirus vaccine certificates with other vaccination documents, and [...]