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MIAMI (April 8, 2008) – The blog of Carnival Cruise Lines’ Senior Cruise Director John Heald continues to set new milestones, with the number of total hits approaching two million and daily visitors increasing 55 percent over the past month. Heald’s blog can be accessed via www.carnival.com or www.johnhealdsblog.com.

The dramatic increase in traffic can be [...]

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MIAMI (January 21, 2008) – Following tremendous response to the inaugural John Heald Bloggers Cruise taking place this week aboard Carnival Freedom, Carnival Cruise Lines has announced that the popular senior cruise director will host a second Bloggers Cruise, this time aboard the Carnival Fantasy Feb. 7-12, 2009.

The second Bloggers Cruise — a five-day voyage [...]

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Welcome to the newly redesigned Cruise Talk Central. In an effort to continually improve the user experience on our website, we have relaunched the site with a new look and styling. In addition, we hope that you will now find the information here at Cruise Talk Central easier to locate and then use.

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MIAMI, Dec 5 – Norwegian Cruise Line unveiled a preview of “License to Thrill,” a movie-sode starring its new “It” Girl Norwegian Gem. The trailer can be viewed at gemitgirl.com, an online site dedicated exclusively to Norwegian Gem. The movie-sode stars Norwegian Gem and features NCL’s president and CEO Colin Veitch as he embarks on [...]

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MIAMI (November 27, 2007) – As a testament to the growing reach and popularity of Carnival Cruise Lines’ on-line marketing channels, the blog of Carnival Freedom Senior Cruise Director John Heald, FunShipIsland.com and CarnivalConnections.com continue to achieve unprecedented success, with each surpassing the one million visitor mark in recent months.

A pioneer in the on-line marketing [...]

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MIAMI (September 25, 2007) – John Heald – Carnival Freedom’s senior cruise director whose blog has become a cruise industry sensation, with nearly 700,000 visitors since its debut in March – has been named “Sea Going Employee of the Year” by Seatrade Insider, a leading on-line source for cruise industry news and information.

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I look back so fondly on my first cruise experiences as a kid in the 70’s and it makes me wonder, were the cruises really that great, or did the wonder of traveling in such an elegant way at such a young age color my memories. We cruised on the BonVivant, Costa’s World Renaissance, [...]

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The Cruise Talk Central website server move is now complete. If you are seeing this page with this post, your DNS has propagated and you are good to go.

This new server setup should make the Cruise Talk Central experience smoother and quicker. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. [...]

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Sometime over the next couple of days, Cruise Talk Central will be moving to a new server. We are doing this accommodate the increasing demands on bandwidth and to make sure we can provide our readers with a good user experience. Hopefully, you won’t even notice the move.

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Miami - Sep 17, 2007 — Norwegian Cruise Line today launched gemitgirl.com (www.gemitgirl.com ), an online site dedicated exclusively to the company’s new “It” Girl, Norwegian Gem. The site features fun, engaging features including a blog from the “It” Girl herself, a create-your-own avatar tool, weekly polls, virtual bowling in the Bliss Ultra Lounge, a [...]

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