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Sydney Morning Herald
20 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Port guide: Townsville, Australia
Australia's largest tropical city is overshadowed by Cairns when it comes to tourism, but you'll find plenty of ways to spend an enjoyable day in port. Who goes there Around 30,000 passengers visited Townsville in the 2024-25 season, but the newly widened shipping canal and upgraded terminal is expected to attract larger ships. When Cunard's Queen Elizabeth arrived in January 2025 it became the largest ship (2081 passengers) to visit. Coral Expeditions, Holland America, Oceania, Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn and Viking are among lines that call in as they either trek across the Pacific to Asia, or pass along Australia's east coast. Sail on in The arrival won't wow you, but is an attractive glide through a shipping channel marked by large buoys into a bay created by a cape on the port side and Magnetic Island to starboard. You'll spot locals on the breakwater admiring your ship. The city is topped by Castle Hill, often a destination on city overview excursions for its terrific outlooks. Berth rites Quayside Terminal sits in the industrial port, squints towards Magnetic Island and takes architectural inspiration from palm fronds. It's an attractive building and extends into a well-organised, undercover meet-and-greet area where tour buses and taxis pull up. You'll find friendly tourism office reps and stalls selling souvenirs. The terminal is two kilometres from the CBD on pedestrian and cycle paths but, given the tropical heat, you'll probably want to take the shuttle. Going ashore
The Age
20 hours ago
- The Age
Port guide: Townsville, Australia
Australia's largest tropical city is overshadowed by Cairns when it comes to tourism, but you'll find plenty of ways to spend an enjoyable day in port. Who goes there Around 30,000 passengers visited Townsville in the 2024-25 season, but the newly widened shipping canal and upgraded terminal is expected to attract larger ships. When Cunard's Queen Elizabeth arrived in January 2025 it became the largest ship (2081 passengers) to visit. Coral Expeditions, Holland America, Oceania, Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn and Viking are among lines that call in as they either trek across the Pacific to Asia, or pass along Australia's east coast. Sail on in The arrival won't wow you, but is an attractive glide through a shipping channel marked by large buoys into a bay created by a cape on the port side and Magnetic Island to starboard. You'll spot locals on the breakwater admiring your ship. The city is topped by Castle Hill, often a destination on city overview excursions for its terrific outlooks. Berth rites Quayside Terminal sits in the industrial port, squints towards Magnetic Island and takes architectural inspiration from palm fronds. It's an attractive building and extends into a well-organised, undercover meet-and-greet area where tour buses and taxis pull up. You'll find friendly tourism office reps and stalls selling souvenirs. The terminal is two kilometres from the CBD on pedestrian and cycle paths but, given the tropical heat, you'll probably want to take the shuttle. Going ashore
Travel Weekly
2 days ago
- Business
- Travel Weekly
With new menus and excursions, Seabourn is doing a culinary revamp
Seabourn is introducing new dinner menus, culinary shore excursions and more seafood offerings shipwide as part of a culinary revamp focused on fresh and local cuisine. The new dinner menu at The Restaurant has 24 new appetizers and main courses. New dishes that the cruise line is highlighting are marinated diver scallops with smoked trout carpaccio and Ossetra caviar, and a grilled beef sirloin and lobster spring roll with pomme puree. The menu, like all other dining venues onboard, will incorporate freshly caught seafood more prominently. The line will also be sourcing more local ingredients and incorporating more regional cuisine specific to the sailing's destinations. Focus on culinary travel: Navigating celebrity chef partnerships In those destinations, Seabourn will offer new food-related shore excursions, such as a cooking demonstration with a local chef in Alaska, oyster shucking on Prince Edward Island and lobster tastings in Bar Harbor, Maine. The existing "shopping with a chef" program, which enables guests to accompany the executive chefs at local markets, will be expanded to new destinations, including Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Penang in Malaysia, Nagasaki in Japan and Quebec City in Canada. "After traveling across the fleet and listening closely to our guests, onboard teams and travel partners, we're exploring even more ways to spotlight regional flavors and locally sourced ingredients, with freshness and flavor at the heart of every dish," said Seabourn president Mark Tamis.
Associated Press
13-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
CARNIVAL CORPORATION & PLC TO HOLD CONFERENCE CALL ON SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS
MIAMI, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has scheduled a conference call with analysts for Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 10 a.m. (EDT); 3 p.m. (BST) to discuss the company's second quarter financial results which are expected to be released that morning. A simulcast of the call will be available via the company's websites at and About Carnival Corporation & plc Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest global cruise company, and among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines – AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn. For more information, please visit and To learn more about Carnival Corporation's purpose and our positive impact worldwide on people and the planet, go to View original content: SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc
Travel Weekly
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Travel Weekly
Missed the last eclipse? Cruise lines offer a remedy in 2026
Teri West Do you remember where you were on April 8, 2024? It was a day where hundreds of thousands of people congregated in states like Vermont and Ohio to experience an event that lasted only about four minutes: a total solar eclipse. If you weren't one of those who traveled for it and didn't happen to live anywhere along its path of totality, that may have been the day that you swore you'd travel to catch the next one. Cruise lines, too, made a promise to themselves that they would be there. And "there" is coming sooner than you think. A total solar eclipse will be visible next August in Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Russia. Seabourn Cruise Line and Virgin Voyages will be offering their first eclipse sailings next year, with plans to position ships within the path of totality that traverses the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Cruises filling up fast Eclipse sailings are doing incredibly well. Seabourn is offering two sailings, and both are pretty much sold out, said chief marketing officer Mike Fulkerson. One is a two-week voyage along Western Ireland and ending in Iceland, and the other will sail the Mediterranean roundtrip from Barcelona. Princess Cruises recently added a third sailing to its lineup. Eclipse cruises' popularity caught Atlas Ocean Voyages off guard when it launched sales for its 2024 sailing, but now the company knows just how much people want to be on a cruise during the event, CEO James Rodriguez told me. "If I could make more eclipses throughout the year, I would," he said. Cruises enable eclipse enthusiasts to develop a communal sense of excitement during the build-up toward the brief event and offer more dexterity than on land, he said. If one location in the path of totality has cloud cover, for example, the ships can navigate to a more favorable location as the event approaches. And since the cruises last more than just that day, the entire ship finds a sense of community as anticipation builds toward that moment, Rodriguez said. "It's kind of hard to replicate on a land vacation versus a cruise vacation because you're all there onboard [and] experience this together," Rodriguez said. "You talk about it before, you talk about it when it's happening and then you also talk about it after the cruise, and you create friends. And so for us, it's the closest expedition experience, that communal experience, that you have outside the polar regions." He's found there to be a contingency of eclipse chasers who seek out cruises on those specific dates. The company sold out half of its 2024 sailings in half a day. One of its 2026 sailings will travel through Iceland and Greenland, and the other will be in the Mediterranean. Seabourn published a graphic of an eclipse before launching sales for its 2026 voyages and saw a rush of inquiries, said Fulkerson. "Our travel agents and our internal sales team were just getting bombarded with, 'When is it going to be available?'" he recalled. "'Can I get on a wait list?'" During the early sales launch period, the company saw a 400% increase in bookings compared to similar timeframes for noneclipse cruises, he said. Preparing for 2027 The sweet spot for launching eclipse sailings is slightly more than two years out, Rodriguez told me, which is why you're starting to see sailing become available for 2027's eclipse. The path of totality in 2027 spans from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean with land coverage in parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Holland America launched sales for two 2027 eclipse cruises last week. "The excitement around viewing a total solar eclipse the past few years has been palpable," Paul Grigsby, the line's vice president of deployment, said in a statement. "We jumped at the chance to create more itineraries."
