You have read all the classic books: Moby Dick, Two Years Before the Mast, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Sea Wolf, maybe Darwin’s The Vogage of the Beagle and even Cooleridge’s poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and, of course, everything by Joseph Conrad and all the Captain Hornblower books. And maybe as a [more...]
The Oasis of the Seas is now undergoing its second sea trial before it is due to become operational in 41 days time when it arrives in Florida to board its first passengers. It will then become the largest operational cruise ship in the world. The ship was built in Turku, Finland. At 220,000 gross [more...]
The cruise industry was estimated to generate $24.5 billion in revenues in 2008 with 15 million passengers cruising worldwide on 294 ships. These statistics come from the State of the Industry Report 2008-2015 published by Cruise Industry News. The report was published in July 2008 before the 2008/09 problems with global recession. Eleven million people [more...]