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Boston Operator Starts

Cruise Venture Wit ^Former Sagafjord

On Oct. 23, 1996, Boston-based vacation company Saga

International Holidays Ltd. made a $30 million investment, purchas- ing its own cruise ship to meet the rowing demand for cruise vaca-

IS. This ship is the former

Cun?hsd Sagafjord, which is cur- rently n&med Gripsholm, and on charter to aSGerman operator.

Saga will rmortedly rename the ship once again, and it will be the only ship in the world on which passengers under 50 years of age are banned/ Saga's American cruise customers will share the ship with customers of the Boston tour operator's U.K.-based parent company.)

The 24,474 ton-liner, with a capacity pf 620 passengers, will be taken ovAr by Saga this spring and will operate a series of summer cruises ia the Mediterranean,

ScandinaviV and the Baltic, oper- ating out oi the U.K.'s Port of

Dover before ^winter refit.

Announcing rhis acquisition,

Saga Chairman Roger De Haan said that Saga hasYbeen selling cruise holidays on the world's lead- ing lines for many years. "At pre- sent, demand is exceeding supply.

Running our own sjpp is the only way to ensure thpt we can offer the number oy quality berths which our customers require," con- cluded Mr. De Haan.

CLIA Previews Industry

HighlightYfor 1997

A flotilla of n5iv ships, cruises geared to special interests and exotic new ports oj call top the list of trends in 199Jrcruising, accord- ing to Cruise innes International

Association (^LIA).

For the styond year in a row, new ships will prab headlines as they are launched by CLIA-member lines — paV, of a building boom that is expected to last until the end of the centara The lineup for 1997 includes tn^yfollowing ves- sels: • Bergen Line —\ Norwegian

Coastal Voyage's Norcmorge, April. • Princess Cruises — Dawn

Princess, May. • Royal Caribbean Cruises

February, 1997

Ltd. —lUtfwsody of the Seas, May.^

Enchtmtment of the

Dtember.

Holland America Line —

Rotterdam VI, October. • Radisson Seven Seas Cruises — Paul Gauguin, October. ^lebrity Cruises

Nover

In addition, Majesty Cruise Line will expand its fleet with the char- ter of Cunard Line's Crown

Dynasty, renamed Crown Majesty.

New ports to be visited by ships in the world's fleet include Rio de

STISTWT^iwwm^niLJ., Ilk, utraits of Magellan, Costa Rica, South

Africa, northern Europe, the

Mediterranean and the Kanawha and Illinois rivers of the U.S.

Midwest.

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