The world’s largest cruise company is gradually getting some meat back on its bones, but it won’t quite have that pre-pandemic girth by the end of the year.

HAL’s senior director of sales and marketing for Australia and NZ has cruised on in and dropped anchor to take part in our ‘Life in the time of COVID-19’ series.

The line is the latest Carnival Corp subsidiary to pull the plug on Aussie cruises for this year.

Canada’s obnoxiously handsome PM, Justin Trudeau, has chucked a spanner in the works for cruise fanatics over on that side of the globe.

Sycamore Partners has wasted no time since announcing its acquisition of Azamara. Staff have even managed to fit in a couple of celebratory pub lunches.

New year, new cruise resumption dates for several Carnival Corp brands, so tell your clients they won’t need to add seasickness tablets to their shopping lists anytime soon.

Princess Cruises’ leading lady has climbed Carnival’s leadership ladder once more.

Another day, another cruise pause update from your trusty buddies at Travel Weekly. You can thank us by sending cupcakes and a bottle of vodka.

The cruise giant has disclosed a data breach exposing client data to a third party, who we assume looks exactly like the hooded figure in the accompanying image.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you – we’ve published our Wednesday Cruise Wrap on a Thursday this week! And, as you can imagine, it has led to complete and total anarchy in the Travel Weekly office.

Travel Weekly is tickled pink to present you with this week’s Cruise Wrap, and that’s not only because it was the last thing standing between us and lunch.

This week’s Cruise Wrap is one of our longest yet, with enough information to fill the Pacific Ocean. Or maybe just the Tasman Sea. It will fill your kitchen sink, at least.