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Beginning May 3, 2011, Disney Cruise Lines will be offering cruises to Alaska for the first time.

Departing from its home port in Vancouver. B.C., it will make its way through Tracy Arm in Southeast Alaska and back while visiting the ports in Skagway, Ketchikan and Juneau. The vessel, Disney Wonder will offer activities while it makes its way to Alaska for 18 seven-night cruises to Alaska with its last cruise scheduled in August 30, 2011.

The vessel will be offering rates whose ranges will play in the nine hundreds of American dollar excluding activities for the excursions and other on shore activities that is offered by the cruise line or the locals at the ports that the vessel will be visiting.

This is a good news for the state as the tourism industry for it is not looking that good as some cruise lines are not visiting them anymore. Because of this redirection of other cruise lines, an the state expects more than 150, 000 passenger loss for 2010.

Before the 2011 season for the cruise industry, the vessel Disney Wonder will be outfitted with a 2500 square foot cafe with floor to ceiling curved glass windows. This is where the passengers can watch the scenery and that the outbacks of Alaska offers. The vessel will also be offering cruises from the port of Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta for a seven-night cruise that will be given for the rate of 640$ per person for a standard inside stateroom based on double occupancy before the cruising season begins for the Alaskan Summer.

You can book your cruises for the Alaskan trips starting September 28 by your travel agent or by calling Disney Cruise Lines. For more details and information about this news please visit cruise ship jobs news by cruiselinejobguide.com your source of the best cruise jobs guide and details for disney cruise ship jobs.

A crowd of more than two hundred gathered at the old and aging terminal on Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina to hear the plans for a new cruise passenger terminal that is much needed to handle the growing cruise industry in the state, provide waterfront access and security and to reflect the State’s historic character.

Although there is no budget nor timeline for the new terminal, the president and CEO of south Carolina State Ports, Jim Newsome, said that there is a still a big need for a new terminal to replace the almost 40 year old existing terminal.

Carnival Cruise Lines will make use of Charleston as its homeport for its 2056 passenger Carnival Fantasy beginning next spring. Carnival cruise lines do operate in the existing port but only mostly winter cruises.

Millions of dollars which will be very helpful to the local and state economy is expected from the new terminal which will allow the passengers to embark on cruises from the State anytime of the year.

Mayor Joseph Riley is delighted as it is a great way to expose Charleston to tourists. “Great cities are always evolving, trying to do things better,” he said. “We can do better and must do better.”

Local residents are invited to participate for the terminal planning and a public meeting with in this month. Cooper Robertson and Partners of New York, is the design firm that is making plans for the terminal project. The same firm has worked on some projects including the Waterfront Park in

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Following the statements made by the parent company of Carnival, Holland America and Princess about the plans to reduce the cruise services in 2010, discussions for further decrease in the following year are now in discussions. Micky Arison, the Carnival Corporation Chairman and CEO told Wall Street analysts that the reason for more pull outs will be the increasing cost of operating in the state. He announced on a conference call during the discussions of the third quarter earnings that “It is likely we are going to do more of (the capacity cutting) in ‘11… The amount of cost that they’ve put on to the industry during this short season is astronomical, and it will continue to negatively affect Alaska”.

Other destinations such as Europe is becoming more attractive to a lot of cruise lines as compared to Alaska which increases its taxes, fees and regulations to all cruise lines that visits and stops on Alaska’s ports. Arison then follows by telling the analysts “The brand will decide to put the ship where there is the best return and the most profitable returns… They have to put it in the context that they already have seven ships in Europe or they already have two ships in Australia, but they will model it out, and if it pays to pull a ship from Alaska and put it in Europe or … the Far East they will do that.” He also adds that even though Disney Cruise Line has decided to include Alaska to one of its destinations, the cruise line will not be servicing the area for long due to high operating expenses in the state.

A lawsuit was filed before this comments were made against Alaska’s newly added $50 tax on passengers visiting the state. This lawsuit was made by an association that represents the nine major cruise lines that visits Alaska during the summer season.

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