August 2008 Cruise Search

Our monthly Cruise Search reflects change in demand and online market share. U.S. online cruise search is currently estimated at 9.4 million monthly unique individuals. Cruise Search shrank vs. both the previous month and August of last year. This indicates continued...

Cruise Ship 2.0

Web 2.0 is linking people. Cruise 2.0 is linking cruisers to booking agents, travel discounters, reviews (by actual cruisers not professional critics) and self-created travel blogs.  Where is it going? The article "Understanding the Psyche of Tomorrow's Travellers"...

The next great wave

Online cruise travel bookings The chart to the left shows the percentage of cruisers who use the Internet to contact a travel agent. I saw Internet growth figures like these in the late 1990's for usage of the Internet for news.  Today the number is well past 70%....