Tired of your colleagues outsmarting you when it comes to the latest cruise brochures and deals? Get the upper hand right here.

This cruise wrap is as long as this week has felt. On the bright side, if you need to look like you’re super-busy for a while, you can kill almost a whole afternoon scrolling through this one.

Celebrate Scenic Eclipse’s long-awaited delivery by whiling away your day getting through this whopper of a cruise wrap. We promise it’ll buy you at least an hour of idle time.

Aussie passengers onboard Princess Cruises’ Sea Princess have witnessed a daring rescue in the South Caribbean sea.

Batten down the hatches because this cruise wrap is bigger than the Pacific Ocean! Or maybe the Arctic. It would fill your kitchen sink, at least.

Just in case you need a little midweek motivation, this week’s cruise wrap is BURSTING with parties, pride, awards, famils, deals and pretty pictures for you to scroll through.

There have been some grandiose movements locally and globally in the travel industry of late. Almost as grandiose as our editor’s quadruple-shot espresso with two marshmallows this morn.

In very sad news, an Australian man has been confirmed as one of the five people killed in the horror plane crash in Alaska.

Five people have been killed and 10 others injured after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in mid-air over southeast Alaska.

Here’s the list and pics of winners from this year’s Helloworld Travel Awards, sadly minus any wild after-party snaps.

Not all heroes wear capes, as this dramatic rescue of two passengers from a downed plane in the Caribbean demonstrates.

Welcome to the second last agent wrap of the year! Don’t expect anything amazing next week – we’ll be too busy singing Christmas carols to do any work.