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Waynaro
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posted 01-18-2003 02:13 AM      Profile for Waynaro   Email Waynaro   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has introduced its 2003-2004 Homeland Cruising brochure, the largest, most comprehensive cruise brochure in company history. Highlighting NCL’s roundtrip departures from 12 U.S. and Canadian ports, the colorful 192-page directory is the definitive guide to NCL’s breakthrough Homeland Cruising concept, and features complete details on the company’s fleet expansion and convenient new itineraries departing from Baltimore, Houston and New Orleans. In all, NCL is offering 68 Freestyle Cruising voyages to Alaska, Bermuda, Canada & New England, the Caribbean and Bahamas and Hawaii in 2003 –2004.
NCL, which offers regularly scheduled round-trip cruises from more U.S. and Canadian ports than any other cruise line, recently expanded its popular Homeland Cruising program, announcing the transfer of Crown Odyssey from the NCL Group’s Orient Lines brand to the NCL brand in the fall of 2003. With Crown Odyssey’s transfer, NCL ships will sail on seasonal roundtrip itineraries departing from Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Orlando (Port Canaveral), San Juan, Seattle and Vancouver, and year-around sailings from Miami, Houston and Honolulu.
With the expansion, NCL is the leader in some of the most popular cruise destinations including:

The leading cruise line in Hawaii
The leading cruise line in the Northeast
The leading cruise line in Alaska’s Inside Passage
The leading cruise line sailing from Seattle to Alaska
The leading cruise line in Bermuda
We’re proud to introduce the largest brochure in our history, which appropriately focuses on our innovative Homeland Cruising program,” said Andy Stuart, senior vice president of marketing and sales for NCL. “NCL was the first line to popularize close-to-home departures in late 2001 when we introduced Homeland Cruising. Today, roundtrip departures from close-to-home ports have become the preferred method of cruise vacationing for millions of travelers in the U.S. and Canada. We’ve brought the ships to vacationers instead of asking them to fly across the country to get to the ships, and they've responded.”



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empressport
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posted 01-19-2003 11:35 AM      Profile for empressport     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I totally understand NCL's marketing pitch with this, but I still find the "Homeland" phrase rather ominous. Anyone else?
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mamamcd
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posted 01-19-2003 11:40 AM      Profile for mamamcd   Email mamamcd   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I find it a bit ominous too - kind of like feeding on the post-911/pre Iraq fear of flying and travel. It's obviously more convenient for travellers who don't want the extra expense and time needed to get to a far-away port to cruise, but I do find using peoples' uncertainties as a marketing tool a bit out of line.
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moodus2
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posted 01-19-2003 03:13 PM      Profile for moodus2   Email moodus2   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
big deal! show me a cruise out
of new york city in the winter
months.
only the floridians,houstonians
and other southern ports benefit
year round cruises where a drive
to the port is only a day away.
if your from the northern half
of the u.s. or canada you either
drive or fly to the southern half.
or wait for spring where the only good cruise in my opion is
bermuda from new york or boston.

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