Win a Cruise to Galapagos Islands

"Win the trip of your dream to Galapagos Islands"

Here is your chance to win a cruise to the enchanting Galapagos Islands.
Metropolitan Touring is giving away cruises in the Galapagos Islands in the coming weeks and months.

There are some amazing prizes – including the star prize of a cruise for 4 people aboard  M/V Santa Cruz .Don’t miss the chance to enjoy a trip-of-lifetime with your friends or family !!!


How it works:
1. Record a short (under 1 min) video that answers the question, "Why I want to travel to the Galapagos Islands?
2. Upload it to GalapagosContest.com until June 5th (World Environment Day)
3. The top 10 videos selected by a judging panel will be uploaded to our YouTube Channel. Between the panel decision and 15th July, these videos will compete on views. The most viewed will be the winner of our star prize.

Judging Criteria
a. Creativity of the Video – 25%
b. Use of humor in the Video – 25%
c. Originality of the Video – 25%
d. Relevancy of the Video Performance to the question "Why I want to travel to the Galapagos Islands" – 25%

Over USD 55,000 in prizes!
1. First Prize wins a cruise for 4 people.
2. Second Prize wins a cruise for 3 people.
3. Third Prize wins a cruise for 2 people.
4. The next most-popular videos will all win a cruise for 1.

Win with Facebook!
We are giving away, every week very soon, one cruise trip to our faithful Facebook Fans. Like us now for your chance to be picked randomly from our 3,000_ fans!.

Tweet your way to the Galapagos
We'll be giving away a cruise for one every week to our Followers on Twitter who tweet "Galapagos is extraordinary because…" using #galapagosc. The more of these tweets you send out, the more chances you have of winning!

For further information visit:  http://www.galapagoscontest.com

Win a Cruise to Galapagos Islands

Want to take your family on a cruise vacation but don’t have money. Don’t worry.
Here is an remarkable opportunity to take your loved ones on a cruise and enjoy the experience of sailing around  beautiful Galapagos Island in Ecuador.
Metropolitan touring is bringing a great  chance to Win a cruise for you and your pals free of cost and enjoy the Galapagos tour.

You just have to make a minute-long video that answers the question “Why I want to travel to the Galapagos Islands” and upload it to in www.galapagoscontest.com.
If your video get selected than you will get a cruise for four people
.
Even if you don’t win don’t get dishearten. We also have other opportunities to allow you win a cruise.
You can also win a cruise by following  us on twitter and facebook.

Apart from that there are  more than 15,000 USD in prizes waiting for you.
So what are you waiting for go and upload your video!!!.
For more information visit: http://www.galapagoscontest.com/

 

Cruise Trends Report 2011

CruiseCompete has mined its wealth of cruise data to report the latest trends in consumer behavior and purchase decisions for cruise vacations. This valuable information and statistics are available in its CruiseTrends report.CruiseTrends reports are compiled based on actual consumer quote requests on CruiseCompete, the highly acclaimed website where travel agents compete to offer the best deal for consumer cruise business.

The following comprises a sampling of trends for April 2011. To see more topics and data, please visit CruiseCompete’s Press Room or click on April 2011 CruiseTrends.

For purposes of the CruiseTrends report, cruise lines recognized as premium or contemporary are grouped together as premium/contemporary.

Most Popular Cruise Class
(Ranked by the total number of quote requests for each particular line in the given month)

1. Premium/Contemporary Cruises
2. Luxury Cruises
3. River Cruises

Most Popular Cruise Regions
(Ranked by the total number of quote requests for each region)

1. Premium/Contemporary: Caribbean
2. Luxury: Europe (over Mediterranean last month)
3. River: Europe
Next in popularity are North America for premium/contemporary, Mediterranean for luxury, and Russia/Central Asia for river cruises.

Most Popular Cruise Departure Ports
(Ranked by the total number of quote requests for each departure port)

1. Premium/Contemporary: Fort Lauderdale
2. Luxury: New York (over Civitavecchia- Rome last month)
3. River: Amsterdam
Next in popularity are Miami for premium/contemporary, Southampton for luxury, and Prague for river cruises.

Most Popular Cruise Ports Visited
(Ranked by the total number of quote requests for each port visited during cruise itineraries, excluding departure ports)

1. Premium/Contemporary: Nassau
2. Luxury: Kusadasi (Turkey)
3. River: Cologne (over Vienna from last month)
Next in popularity are Cozumel for premium/contemporary, Santorini (Greece) for luxury, and Vienna for river cruises.

Most Popular Countries Visited
(Ranked by the total number of quote requests for each country visited during cruise itineraries, excluding countries of departure)

1. Premium/Contemporary: Bahamas
2. Luxury: Greece
3. River: Germany
Second are Mexico for premium/contemporary, United States for luxury, and France for river cruises.

Source: Cruise Industry News
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