Travel Weekly Announces Launch of OfficialCruiseGuide.com
Travel Weekly announces the launch of OfficialCruiseGuide.com, a free cruise website for the professional travel-agent community which offers offers up to date cruise itineraries and ship schedules for more than 360 cruise ships and cruise lines.

SECAUCUS, NJ, May 04, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Travel Weekly, the national newspaper of the travel industry, has announced the launch of OfficialCruiseGuide.com, a free online service that delivers comprehensive cruise information to the professional travel-agent community.

Positioned as "The Official Cruise Guide of the Travel Industry," the new site offers continually updated cruise schedule details on more than 15,000 individual sailing itineraries, 361 cruise ships and 93 cruise lines, resulting in unparalleled comprehensiveness designed to meet the specific needs of travel agents.

In addition to offering continually updated information on cruises by major lines as well as smaller specialty lines not found at typical online cruise sites, OfficialCruiseGuide.com provides real-time cruise ship schedules, rate, and availability information on most of the 15,000-plus cruise itineraries it tracks.

OfficialCruiseGuide.com also is designed to serve as a planning and selling tool to help travel agents sell cruises more efficiently and effectively.

"The industry has never seen anything like OCG," said Bob Sullivan, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Travel Weekly. "OfficialCruiseGuide.com has significantly more information, better functionality and more useful tools specifically designed for travel agents than any other service in the marketplace."

Travel agents can quickly search the site by sailing date, cruise destination, departure port, and cruise ship or line. Other features include access to deck plans, cabin details and onboard ship amenities. OCG also allows travel agents to leave reviews for fellow travel agents about specific cruise ships and to create customized cruise summaries that can be printed or emailed to clients.

In addition, OfficialCruiseGuide.com provides seamless integration with STAR Service Online and Weissmann Reports, sister services offered by Northstar Travel Media. Visitors to OfficialCruiseGuide.com who subscribe to STAR and Weissmann can get instant access to thousands of professional cruise ship reviews, embarkation hotel reviews and port-of-call guides related to their cruise searches.

Press Release Contact Information:

Bob Sullivan
Official Cruise Guide
EVP & Publisher, Travel Weekly
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Secaucus, NJ
USA 07094
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Fax: 201-902-2045
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