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| Breaking news, 14 Mar 2007 |
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MIAMI – Asia’s cruise industry received a boost yesterday when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Cruise Working Group launched a new cruise portal, www.CruiseASEAN.com, at the annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention here.
“This new cruise portal aims to introduce Asia as a cruise destination to the global cruise industry and to passengers new to the region. Besides introducing each ASEAN member country and its tourism highlights, cruise executives will also be able to access detailed South-east Asian port information online which is useful for planning and developing new cruise products for Asia,” said ASEAN Cruise Working group chairman, Kevin Leong.
Other areas of co-operation include infrastructure development, marketing and promotion and human resource development.
Cruise passengers in the Asia Pacific region are projected to grow by more than 40 percent from 1.07 million in 2005 to 1.5 million by 2010, reaching two million in 2015.
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