I’ve had the good fortune the past couple of years to be associated with the Cruises Inc. organization and the many unselfish agents under its umbrella. As Blue Marble days go, a transition to their “franchise version” sister company CruiseOne, was really not on my radar, at least not for several years.
Well, I need my radar serviced because here I am, a newly minted CruiseOne owner. I soon discovered that I’d fallen into equally good fortune again to now be in the company of unselfish CruiseOne franchise owners.
With this change in venue, I am taking the opportunity to focus personal attention on expedition and exploration travel, activity more aligned with the Blue Marble theme and my particular professional background. While I’ll still represent all of the major cruise lines, I just wanted to do something where I could weave my biology and marine science underpinnings and 30 years working in various environmental disciplines into the fabric of this new CruiseOne enterprise.
Therefore, in the coming months I will be evaluating potential travel partners who practice the established global tenets of sustainable tourism for both land based and cruise oriented exploration travel to promote to my clients. Also, one person won’t be able to do it all so I will be bringing on Associates with diverse travel industry backgrounds and experiences to support our client’s varied needs.
Finally, I’m returning a favor to one of those unselfish CruiseOne franchise owners I reached out to early on in this transition. In the near future I’ll be creating sort of an “Associates” incubator for travel professionals, experienced or new to the field.
This will be an opportunity for like-minded individuals who share my vision of helping people to see the Blue Marble as few will ever see it and to do so with travel partners who possess the greatest respect for and exercise care during their visits to sensitive ecosystems as well as historical and cultural destinations. And that these Associates will ultimately move on to establish their own travel agencies, consultancies or careers with sustainable tourism as a core business value.
They may even find themselves one day as a newly minted CruiseOne owner.
The photograph coined the Blue Marble was taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the Moon on what turned out to be the last manned lunar mission. The iconic image was seen by many as a depiction of Earth's frailty and vulnerability. No humans since that mission have cruised that far out in space. For those of us earthbound denizens destined never set eye on it from above, we'll just have to see it up close, by exploring the Blue Marble.
The Blue Marble
Exploring the Blue Marble Mission
The cruise industry and it's partner cruise lines are tied indelibly to "things" environmental. It is where they make their living. Be it the seas they sail, the ports they visit or the passengers and crew they carry. This blog will be a brew of cruise business information, how our industry manages it's environmental obligations, information about the ports that are visited all sprinkled with bits of information from the "sciences". And yes, on occassion an opinion or two on various topics. I hope it will be informative, once in a while provocative and always entertaining. So please join me while we explore the Blue Marble.
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