Wall Street Journal, 4/22/04 - Shore Excursions

[Host Walt]

You may be interested in an article in the Wall Street Journal 4/22/2004 edition, entitled:

[I][B]Ditching the Cruise Director-Ships Beef Up Shore Trips To Cash In on Rebound;
Booking Your Own Sea Plane[/B][/I]

Here's a brief extract:

Cruise lines are making it easier to book extra trips like these through their reservations systems. Princess, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Star Cruises Ltd.'s Norwegian Cruise Line Group, among others, let passengers book trips online before boarding. Passengers on the Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean liner, can book trips through the TV screens in their rooms. In some cases, the ships offer extra goodies on their excursions. Passengers taking Royal Caribbean and Celebrity excursions in Florence, Italy, and Rome, for example, receive emergency packages with coins and phone numbers to dial if they get lost. Tour representatives are dispatched to help when called...

...Tour operators report an increasing numbers of calls and e-mails -- some from people who have read postings on Web sites such as cruisecritic.com ([url="http://www.cruisecritic.com"]www.cruisecritic.com[/url]) ... about plotting their own itineraries...

Walt Tuthill
Cruise Board Moderator

Contact at [email]Shiptender@aol.com[/email]

[This message was edited by Host Walt on 04-23-04 at 03:31 PM.]

[newtocc]

Walt, that was a great plug for Cruise Critic, more people will come and visit this site, more people will view the ads, more people will buy my hats, Yes!

Wanna buy a hat?

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This ship 10/91
That ship 11/95
Whatever ship 12/98
here a ship 13/99
there a ship 14/00
everywhere
a
ship ship 15/05

<font size="3" color=red>Over 1 year</font> into my LMBO cruise

[MISSYLOU]

Hey Walt. I think Newt's got a pretty good idea there. You could sell a lot more hats if you put Newts picture on them. Ofcourse Newt would want a cut but he deserves it for being so creative.

Karen & Paul [email]kmbix56@wmconnect.com[/email]
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Maasdam 07/02, Sun Princess 03/02,Maasdam 11/01,Statendam 07/01,Dolphin 1990?

[woodofpine]

Yah - Rock Star - So you're selling hats? Tooo cool... what - else - next?

[Host Walt]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by newtocc:
Walt, that was a great plug for Cruise Critic, more people will come and visit this site, more people will view the ads, more people will buy my hats, Yes!

Wanna buy a hat?

[url="http://home.ix.netcom.com/~import1/_uimages/cchat.jpg"]http://home.ix.netcom.com/~import1/_uimages/cchat.jpg[/url]

This ship 10/91
That ship 11/95
Whatever ship 12/98
here a ship 13/99
there a ship 14/00
everywhere
a
ship ship 15/05

<font size="3" color=red>Over 1 year</font> into my LMBO cruise<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Tried that already with my picture. Didn't work.
[img]http://www.wallacetripp.com/assets/StDunstansmall.GIF[/img]

Walt Tuthill
Cruise Board Moderator

Contact at [email]Shiptender@aol.com[/email]