Number of cruise passengers down sharply
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The number of cruise passengers who visited Malta in the first eight months this year dropped sharply by 79.032 when compared to the same period last year, the National Statistics Office said.
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P&amp;O staked its immediate future as a ferry operator on the burgeoning freight market yesterday as it blamed the death of the booze cruise for the need to axe one-fifth of its workforce.
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Severe weather and heavy storms batter much of the UK, causing disruption and delay for travellers.
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More than 380 passengers and crew aboard the world's largest cruise ship were sickened by a virus during a seven-day Caribbean cruise, cruise officials said Sunday.
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A cruise ship docks in Florida after a highly infectious vomiting virus strikes down nearly some 700 people on board.
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A cruise operator ferrying U.S. residents to Canada for flu shots said on Friday it has cut back on its popular service due to overwhelming demand and concerns about diminishing supplies north of the border.
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Investing: Cruising to Disaster
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French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats went to the assistance of a cruise ship limping in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard Monday after a storm knocked out its engines, maritime officials said.
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Travel industry leaders meeting in Washington Wednesday said they want the U.S. government to stop treating tourists like terrorists, and to take steps to reverse a steep decline in overseas travel to the United States that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Just 7 percent of the population attend services regularly. But visits to churches are up sharply.
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Cruise operator, Victoria Clipper, started offering flu shot cruises to Canada for Americans desperate to get their vaccine soon after it was announced that the USA had lost 48% of its flu vaccine doses.
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Heavy discounts and "door-buster"  promotions sent more than 140 million U.S. shoppers to stores  during the three-day kickoff to holiday shopping, but overall  customer traffic was seen falling from last year, a retail  trade group said on Sunday.
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Passengers on one of Britain's most overcrowded and least punctual rail services face further misery
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The number of Iraqi civilian deaths at American checkpoints and in encounters with U.S. convoys has fallen sharply, from as many as eight a week a year ago to one a week last month, the U.S. military reported Thursday.
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Heavy discounts and "door-buster" promotions sent more than 140 million U.S. shoppers to stores during the three-day kickoff to holiday shopping, but overall customer traffic was seen falling from last year, a retail trade group said on Sunday.
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After enrolling just 65,000 members in two years, is the Registered Traveler program dead in the water?
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Thousands of tourists who hoped to ride the city's famed red-and-tan cable cars were left disappointed after a frayed cable line prompted a shutdown of one of the system's most popular routes.