{"id":312,"date":"2010-02-08T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.baremetal.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:40:11","slug":"the-european-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"The European Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/phil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-249\" title=\"phil\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/phil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Phil Reimer, Canada\u2019s most erudite <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.portsandbows.com\/portsandbows\/default.aspx\">cruise writer<\/a>, broke the news that Holland America would have seven ships in Europe starting next year with the arrival of the Nieuw Amsterdam.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s how Rick Meadows, CTC executive vice president, marketing, sales and guest programs, explained the strategy to Reimer: \u201cWe are catering to a broader range of interests as the appeal of cruising Europe continues to grow. \u201cBy expanding our cruise opportunities \u2014 both in new ports and varied itineraries \u2014 we expect to entice both first-time and seasoned cruisers.\u201d<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/cruise-vacation-onboard\/NieuwAmsterdam\">Nieuw Amsterdam<\/a> will be ship No. 7, joining the Eurodam, Noordam, Rotterdam, Prinsendam, Maasdam and Ryndam. With more ships come more European itineraries, including two commemorative nine-day historical trans-Atlantic crossings aboard Rotterdam in July this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/main\/Main.action\">Holland America<\/a> has all the details online.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Reimer, Canada\u2019s most erudite cruise writer, broke the news that Holland America would have seven ships in Europe starting next year with the arrival of the Nieuw Amsterdam. Here\u2019s how Rick Meadows, CTC executive vice president, marketing, sales and guest programs, explained the strategy to Reimer: \u201cWe are catering to a broader range of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The European Expansion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,19,15],"tags":[22,23,24,26,27],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-european-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-nieuw-amsterdam","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}