Thursday April 10

It may be the week that the cruise industry was all about the people, with Adam Goldstein promoted at Royal Caribbean (read here) and with yet another set of performers announced for the P&O Cruises Strictly Come Dancing sailings (read here).

Meanwhile in the run up to the World Cup - Norwegian Cruise Lines and Costa Cruises announce that the games will be screened on their ships so guests do not miss a thing! Read here for Norwegian and read here for Costa.

Are you Britain's funniest travel business? Well Carnival Cruise Lines have teamed up with TTG to acknowledge winners at their awards ceremony in December - read here

And in the mix of announcements of newly launching rivcer ships and ships destined to launch in 2015, there are also on-going refurbishments being made, including this to Regent Seven Seas Cruises: Read here

Those ship itineraries also keep being announced - with Royal Caribbean committing more tonnage to Australia: read here; whilst over in river cruise Avalon is targeting the French waterways read here.

We will be back next week...