Hurtigruten has released a preview brochure for its Norway program,  providing details on the Norway Coastal and Expedition itineraries for 2021/2022.

iExpedition beat some of Australia’s top tourism competitors to take home the highly coveted Transfers and Tourism award for the second consecutive year at the 25th Sunshine Coast Business Awards earlier this month.

This week the President of Seabourn, Richard Meadows, discusses exclusively with LATTE the cruise company’s move into the ultra-luxury expedition market. Meadows tells us about the maiden season itineraries, expeditions team and on board submarines and informs us as to how sales have been tracking for the inaugural cruises on board Seabourn Venture in 2021.

Quark Expeditions has unveiled further onboard elements and external renderings of the new livery for its upcoming ship, Ultramarine, featuring the company’s distinctive yellow ‘Q’ logo spanning the full height of the ship. The design reflects Quark’s “mission to go beyond the predictable”, the polar specialist said.

Last week LATTE sat down with the CEO of Hurtigruten, Daniel Skjeldam, to hear about the company’s growth aspiration in the Australian market, and learn why more and more Australians are choosing the Norwegian company to explore polar regions.

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ brand new expedition ship, HANSEATIC nature, will enter service today [Sunday 5 May, 2019] on its inaugural cruise from Hamburg.

Seabourn has revealed it will name its first new ultra-luxury purpose-built expedition ship Seabourn Venture, paying tribute to the remote destinations visited by the brand’s highly successful expedition and Ventures by Seabourn excursion programs and the fascinating places yet to be explored in the future.

Based at Abercrombie & Kent’s headquarters outside Chicago, Bob Simpson joined the luxury travel company in 1998 and over the past 20 years has worked his way up the ranks to his current position as Vice President, Expedition Cruising.