Signature Media’s masthead magazine title, Signature Luxury Travel & Style (SLTS), has revealed the finalists and winners of its annual ‘Best of’ Cruise Awards, making their return in 2022 after the COVID-induced global cruise pause.

Bookings have opened for PONANT’s Northern Hemisphere Summer 2024 voyages bound for the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Northern Europe, with 50 new sailings.

PONANT is set to launch a new polar odyssey multi-day off-ship adventure for guests sailing to the Arctic aboard Le Commandant Charcot.

PONANT has revealed it will position expedition ship Le Jacques-Cartier in the Kimberley for its highly-anticipated 2024 program.

Adventures by Disney is offering new expeditions to the Adriatic Sea aboard PONANT’s Le Bougainville in 2024. The new Mediterranean destination will be complemented by additional opportunities to explore Antarctica, the Arctic and the Galapagos Islands.

PONANT has rebooted its ‘Explore to Inspire’ Roadshow Series which will traverse six cities in Australia and New Zealand this November.

PONANT’s Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker, has completed another feat of navigation by becoming the first French cruise ship to cross the McClure Strait on 27 September 2022. An eastern arm of the Beaufort Sea on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories, the Strait is renowned for difficult ice conditions similar to those of the Northwest Passage.

PONANT has released official photography of its renovated three-masted sailing yacht Le Ponant, after extensive renovations at the San Giorgio del Porto yard in Italy.

Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) Australasia will put Expedition Cruising in the spotlight next month during its latest online education event for travel advisors.

PONANT has this afternoon confirmed the appointment of former APT Travel Group boss Chris Hall as the ultra-luxury expedition cruise operators CEO, Asia Pacific and Special Advisor, commencing in the role full-time from 1 February 2023.

Paul Gauguin Cruises has unveiled its full-year 2024 deployment of 33 voyages aboard MS Paul Gauguin, offering loyalty members of Paul Gauguin Society a three-day booking window to take their first pick of the crop

PONANT has confirmed an ongoing collaboration with Smithsonian Journeys, the travel program of the Smithsonian Institution – the world’s largest museum, education and research complex.