by Cruise Market Watch | Jun 23, 2009 | Hot Topics, Marketing
What do you call a 335-Day circumnavigation of the world visiting 242 Ports of Call, 14 Oceans & Seas, 52 Countries and 85 UNESCO World Heritage sites besides the journey of a lifetime? Marketing geeks like me call it a creative and unique response to emerging...
by Cruise Market Watch | Jun 21, 2009 | Marketing, Revenue, Trends
Oprah Winfrey is with her employees this week on a cruise. At the same time, she has become part of a marketing trend. According to Jo Kling, Founder and President of Landry & Kling, Inc, a premier cruise event services company "We anticipate the number of...
by Cruise Market Watch | Jun 20, 2009 | Hot Topics
According to Friday's Chicago Sun Times Oprah is taking her entire staff and their families on a Mediterranean cruise vacation. They leave Chicago for Spain today, with port stops in Italy, Turkey, Greece and Malta. The cruise, which also included three days at the...
by Cruise Market Watch | Jun 19, 2009 | Cruise Market Community
for completing our Cruise Market Watch panel survey. Results will be posted here sometime over the next several weeks. In the meanwhile review previous surveys below. You can leave additional thoughts or comments in the area provided at the bottom of this page....
by Cruise Market Watch | Jun 18, 2009 | Online, Trends
Our monthly Cruise Search Index reflects change in cruise demand as measured by the number of visitors to online cruise websites. For the month of May 2009, U.S. online search for cruise travel is estimated at 9.8 million monthly unique individuals. This represents a...