Posted by Ari Permana

Nowadays, the number of brides and brooms are increasing to tie the knot on cruising and setting the entire wedding party on the sunset in tow. According to representatives of the Associated Travel Agents and major North America Cruise Lines, the growing number of the cruise wedding have been reaching up to 60 percent in the last decade.

Having wedding on  a Cruise Ship, it’s more cost effective to get everyone together from families to friends and it’s consider a lot easier, the cost of the cruise also includes foods, entertainments, gift packages and cocktail reception before meal. By choosing the most basic wedding package on board Cruise Ship, couple can have complimentary such as  staying in a balcony room, an officiant from local port of call, music, flowers, an hour at a bar, champagne toast and strawberry.

The competition between the Cruises Industries cannot be denied, carnival cruise lines offers a deluxe romance package with a celebratory ice carving and a one and a half hour reception. Norwegian Cruise Line offer onboard wedding ceremonial to onshore wedding during a port of call. The brides and brooms can have their romantic wedding party at a colonial chapel in New Orleans or wedding by canal in Venice. In the last two years, Cruise Agents report that many couples find for a less expensive alternative and options to other place wedding locations and look for ways to save on marriage.

Disney Cruise Vacation has been popular with couples, family and friends for an unforgettable getaway especially for honeymoon getaway after the wedding. Disney Cruise Vacation includes accommodation, entertainment of Disney character, meals and dining options as well as your activities with reasonable price. Taking entire family to Disney cruise vacation is an economical way to gain an unforgettable vacation.

By Ari Permana

carnival cruise line ship

Carnival cruise line is one of the biggest operators of vacation cruise liners in the world. And over 7 million passengers were carried by 81 cruise liners belongs to carnival cruise line. Around 44% of global cruise industry is commanded by Carnival cruise line.  It has been undergoing image overhauling recent years that carnival cruise line is considered to be the “fun ship” cruise line for the 20-something crowd

In September of 2009, the company schedules to build the newest and the biggest carnival ship. It’ll carry 3600 passengers and weigh in at 130,000-tons, only sailing on short trip in Europe after inauguration and it will be relocating to 7-day Caribbean cruises in Florida. Carnival’s newer ships reflect a main-stream.

During the quarter the company reached the revenue of $2.9 billion and earning $264 million, or $0, 33 per diluted share. During the same quarter a year ago, they gained the net income of $390 million, or $0.49 per share.

The impact of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s advices against non-essential travel to Mexico is disruptions of its Mexican cruises approximately $0.03 per share had been reduced by the impact to the carnival’s earnings.  It would have been even higher because of that.

Currently, the fuel prices are also a big problem for the operation since its high. The booking volumes are successfully increasing 26% ahead of a year ago, since March. It really makes a big help to cover a huge deficit in second half booking caused by global economic slowdown.

The overall amount of business for the second of half of 2009, the booking volumes stays three percentage points lower than this time a year ago. Even with the surge in bookings. They are still “significantly lower levels” with the prices for cruises in the second half of the year than in the past.