Cruise Shipping Miami Recap
Below are some of the items catching my attention in the Buzz Booth (my virtual seat to Cruise Shipping Miami where I am riding the #CSM2014 hashtag looking for interesting news, photos, links, and tips).
Replay
This morning Twitter was ablaze with play-by-play tweets from the opening address of the 30th Annual Cruise Shipping Miami Conference, which opened today at Miami Beach Convention Center.
Replay RT @CruiseShipping: Christine Duffy’s kicked off the #30 State of the Global Cruise Industry at #csm2014 pic.twitter.com/HX8VsYqaJN
— Carrie Finley-Bajak (@CruiseBuzz) March 11, 2014
- The best is yet to come for the
#cruise industry,@CLIACEO says via@SimonTravels - Christine Duffy talks of
#cruise trends: think millennials, river cruising, and travel experiences via@cruiseable - Were you one of the 21.3 million people who cruised in 2013? via
@CruiseCritic - Millennials will drive first-time cruiser growth via
@CruiseCritic - Experiential
#Travel was a hot topic last year at Cruise Shipping Miami – not it seems to be taking center stage via @CruiseBuzz
Say Cheese
Cruiseable co-founder JD Lasica with Edie Bornstein, President of Crystal Cruises, and Mimi Weisband, VP of PR, at Cruise Shipping Miami. 
MSC Cruises Buzz
As I prepare for a 7-day Spring Break cruise on MSC Divina,
@KenMuskat takes the podium at the Marketing & Sales/Distribution Panel at #CSM2014! #cruisemkt pic.twitter.com/MRT85vyHAy
— MSC Cruises (USA) (@MSCCruisesUSA) March 11, 2014
The convention is the perfect place for the senior vice president of sales and marketing for MSC Cruises USA to tell industry insiders about the cruise lines product.
From @Cruiseable reporting from the session with Ken Muskat from MSC Cruises who tweets, “We don’t have the Dolphins Cheerleaders and the Rockettes, we depend on social media.”
@KenMuskat of@MSCCruisesUS
#CruiseChat broke Twitter
Cruise Chat (a weekly Twitter chat focused in cruising) was just getting started when Twitter broke… All my streams were frozen while the microblogging platform went into a technical glitch. Simon (@SimonTravels) and Tim (@CruiseLineFans) had a great lineup of co-hosts from Norwegian Cruise Line. I hope they get a “redo” because that was going to be some very fun engagement.