When cruise liners talk of being eco-friendly, banning single-use plastic and installing eco-friendly shower heads is only the tip of the iceberg. The real story lies in finding cleaner fuels to power the ships. After all, cruise ships measure their daily fuel consumption in tons! As a sustainable traveler, here’s what you need to know about this new era of green cruises.   Cleaner fuel options As ships try to lower their carbon...

Cruising as an industry has always been subjected to both – the world’s admiration for it’s ever-increasing scale of grandeur and innovation, and censure for the startling figures associated with marine pollution. Like everything else, the global cruising industry has taken this in stride, with their newest vessels designed with the key focus of reducing emissions. Leading cruise liners have launched ships in the recent years that run on Liquified...

Like every year, cruising has scaled or rather sailed to newer heights in 2019. Keeping up with the soaring interest and expectations of passengers globally, 2019 introduced us to some of the most ambitious and grand ships seen thus far, each outshining the cruise liner’s legacy and widening the doors of what it means to cruise on the high seas. This blog takes you through a quick flashback of some...

For those of you who make a buck-list of travel experiences and destinations to visit every year, what lengths of the earth are you willing to travel this year?  If you wish you explore a place serene and captivating in equal measure, unexplored and untouched by time, the north American state of Alaska should top your bucket list. While most imagine Alaska as a far-off winter wonderland (which is undeniably...