Concluding last Sunday was the world’s largest cruise conference aimed at retail agents – Cruise3sixty. Presented by the ICCA’s North American sister company CLIA, the event took place within the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) port precinct where we had a contingent of ICCA members participating. The opportunity to participate in seminars...
Concluding last Sunday was the world’s
largest cruise conference aimed at retail
agents – Cruise3sixty.
Presented by the ICCA’s North American
sister company CLIA, the event took place
within the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) port
precinct where we had a contingent of ICCA
members participating.
The opportunity to participate in seminars
and workshops, mix with other cruise specialist
agents and listen to leading cruise industry
professionals from within the North American
market has been nothing short of excellent.
As part of an opening address by the CEO of
CLIA, Australia/New Zealand was actually
recognised as the fastest growing cruise source
market in the world.
For those of us sitting in the room, we
certainly felt very proud on behalf of our entire
industry back home.
A highlight on day two of Cruise3sixty was
listening to the thoughts and experience of
some very highly credentialed CEO’s from
NCL, MSC, Princess and Celebrity cruises as
part of a panel discussing the current state of
the cruise industry.
As a group they are certainly upbeat about
where the cruise industry is headed.
Through the afternoon of days two and three
we had time to participate in an extremely well
organised trade show.
With the USA being such a mature cruise
market it was great to see so many different
businesses that recognise the value of the
cruise industry and the need to support.
Each day of the conference we had the
opportunity to participate in ship inspections on
a choice of twenty different vessels that
included Allure and Oasis of the Seas; Ruby
and Crown Princess; Norwegian Epic, Pearl
and Dawn; Celebrity Century, Solstice and
Eclipse; Carnival Liberty, Glory and Valour and
Holland America’s Rotterdam just to name a
few!
Mark April 26-30, 2012 in your diary to join
the ICCA at this great event.
