Joe Pike

Guests sailing with Windstar Cruises now can book more than 200 shore excursions online prior to leaving home, whether cruising in Costa Rica, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Mediterranean, or Greek Islands.

NCL Corporation announced a new Family Plan Wednesday for families traveling on select NCL and NCL America ships this fall.

MSC Cruises announced the appointment of Jean Charles Cote as sales manager for Canada.

Travel agency consortia Spainexperience and Worldspan have signed a three-year agreement giving Spainexperience and its member travel agencies throughout Spain access to the Worldspan GDS.

BookingBuilder Technologies announced Friday its full release of G2Agent content within BookingBuilder Desktop.

AMResorts' executives, staff, travel industry leaders and partners gathered this month to commemorate the company's success during the past five years and celebrate the future of its three brands: Secrets Resorts Spas, Dreams Resorts Spas and Sunscape Resorts Spas.

MSC Cruises has announced special fly and cruise packages designed specifically for residents of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Windstar Cruises' 148-guest Wind Spirit and 308-guest Wind Surf set sail in the Caribbean this winter on 41 voyages featuring six itineraries roundtrip from St. Thomas and Barbados.

After growing its European river cruising business more than 600 percent in just two years, Tauck World Discovery is heading into 2007 with a new 24-day, trans-European itinerary, an earlier fall marketing effort to help Tauck agents and guests plan river voyages for the coming year.

From November 2007 through April 2008, Costa will sail throughout the Caribbean, marking 60 years of cruising.