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With a call by Ponant’s Le Bellot, the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority and Cruise the Great Lakes marked a record-breaking $125 million 2022 cruise ship season for Detroit and the Great Lakes region, according to a press release. (more…)
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Scott Kidd and his wife had always wanted to go on a cruise. But the 63-year-old Episcopal priest from the rural mountains of Georgia wanted something different. (more…)
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The Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, with the help of the Detroit Historical Society (DHS), Visit Detroit and American Queen Voyages (AQV), hosted a successful Port Day on Saturday, July 9th, celebrating the return of Great Lakes Cruise Shipping. (more…)
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Viking® continues to mark new milestones for its expedition voyages, as the new purpose-built Viking Octantis® kicks off its inaugural season in the Great Lakes. (more…)
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Pearl Seas Cruises is pleased to announce the 2022 cruise season aboard 210-passenger Pearl Mist, begins this week. (more…)
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A Viking arrived in Motown on Tuesday. But instead of a Norse warrior bent on plunder, this one is a cruise ship with tourists on an expedition on the Great Lakes. (more…)
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American Queen Voyages marks the return of Ocean Navigator™, the final Lakes & Oceans vessel to be added back to the fleet, as she welcomes her first guests in over two years. (more…)
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This spring, after two seasons cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, cruises are set to make a great comeback at the Port of Montreal. A total of 46 port visits are scheduled for 2022. (more…)
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American Queen Voyages has announced three new Great Lakes sailings for fall 2022. For the first time in the cruise line’s history, guests will have evening shoreside options with overnights in Mackinac Island, Montréal, Toronto and Québec City. (more…)
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Houghton and the Keweenaw will welcome thousands of people seeing the area for the first time this summer as part of a series of summer cruises. (more…)
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A big increase in cruise ships docking at Port Milwaukee is bringing around $6 million in improvements to help accommodate that traffic. And a major piece of that funding will be a $3.5 million grant to help expand maritime infrastructure for larger cruise ships, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday. (jsonline.com)
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Cruise ships will visit Muskegon again this summer, after stops were canceled for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen stops are planned for this summer, and more could be planned in coming years, the Muskegon Chronicle reported. (freep.com)
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The United States-based members of the U.S. Great Lakes Cruise Coalition (GLCC) – which consists of various U.S.- based ports, vessel agencies, and tourism entities – have joined the Hwy H2O marketing brand of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System (GLSLS). (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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The summer of 2021 was going to be a record year for Muskegon’s port, with nearly 50 stops from cruise ships touring the Great Lakes. That was pre-COVID-19, when the number of passengers cruising on the Great Lakes from Toronto to Chicago was showing steady year-over-year growth. (wzzm13.com)
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A pair of resolutions passed Wednesday could help open the way for Duluth to become a more attractive cruise ship destination come 2022. Both the Duluth Seaway Port Authority and the Duluth Economic Development Authority approved resolutions that could provide up to a combined $40,000 to cover the cost of designing a facility that could one day welcome waterborne international travelers. (duluthnewstribune.com)
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Cruising on the Great Lakes is an industry that has been on the rise in Michigan. “Great Lakes cruising has brought more than 100,000 port visits a year,” says Dave Lorenz, Vice President of Travel Michigan. “And we’ve been growing for a while as well.” But not in 2020. The industry took a blow at the beginning of the pandemic when Canada closed its port visits. (wzzm13.com)
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May typically marks the start of the season for cruise vacations on the Great Lakes, a burgeoning segment of the market that was shaping up to have a banner year in 2020. Until the pandemic turned the tourism industry on its head, buzz had been building about Great Lakes cruises — and so had business. (chicagotribune.com)
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Victory Cruise Lines, the predominant operator in the Great Lakes cruise market, has canceled more than half its sailings this summer, and pulled one of its ships from the region. (cleveland.com)
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