Over on Travel Weekly in the United States is the story on the expansion of AmaWaterways into South East Asia - yet another sign of the growing investment in both new river cruise ships and in more exotic locations: Read here

Staying with river cruising and with Travel Weekly in the US, they produced an infographic to help US agents understand the opportunity to switch cruisers to river cruise (or indeed adventure cruise): Read here

Back in the UK and the big recruitment news is the appointment of Helen Caron as head of cruise at TUI UK - reporting to former cruise boss Fraser Ellacott: Read here from Travel Weekly.  Travel Weekly also picked up the story of the CLIA event being held in conjunction with Norwegian getaway - the new ship launching January by Norwegian Cruise Lines: Read here

It is a theme picked up by the Baltimore Explorer that also offers advice on right ship - right customer; as we prepare for WAVE season anything that breaks down barriers for first time cruisers has to be a good thing.  Read here.

Ahead of the new year - e-tid picked up the piece by Cruise Critic on how the cruising landscape may look in 2014 - short cruises and far away places will be all the rage according to their article that you can Read here

As the festive season falls upon us - great coverage of the tremendous charity activity by Cunard in the Southampton Echo this week: Read here

Meanwhile, Royal Caribbean goes all musical with Mamma Mia onboard Quantum of the Seas: Read here and in TTG the 'Royal Family is also unveiled: Read here