The long-anticipated agreement with the Bahamas government gives the cruise line a major new destination for a dozen or more ships that homeport in Florida and various East Coast cities.
"We are not taking away the consumer's ability to click around," the association's CEO said. "The travel agent's message has to be, 'Get out and see everything online, and then come talk to me, or while you're doing it, let's do it together.'"
The move comes eight days after employees rejected a plan that was designed to bring the carrier back to profitability, but also would have cut salaries and jobs.
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What started out as something of an accident became an innovative concept: a luxury travel agency next door to an art gallery, both serving the same clientele and presenting opportunities for cross marketing.
The 101-year-old Atlantic Bank building on Michigan Avenue will be redeveloped into a 218-room hotel with a five-story glass-walled addition atop the original structure, whose terra cotta facade will be restored.
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