Some cruise-selling travel agents are expecting a drop in bookings in the wake of Friday’s deadly cruise ship accident off the coast of Italy. But not everyone agrees. Cruise fans, what do you think? Does the highly-publicized incident involving the 3,000-passenger Costa Concordia affect your desire to cruise? Take our quick poll below and then [...]

London (CNN) — Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has warned that if oil leaks from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia it could cause an environmental disaster, threatening marine life including birds, whales and sharks. At least six people died when the huge ship hit rocks and slid onto its side. The vessel — containing hundreds [...]

Many veteran cruise sellers are bracing for a drop in bookings in the wake of Friday’s deadly accident involving a Costa Cruises ship. “It’s hard to see the industry not experiencing at least a small short-term slowdown from this,” Florida-based Simon Duvall of SimonCruises.com tells USA TODAY. “The images and stories coming out of Italy [...]

MIAMI – A South Florida couple who embarked on a seven day Mediterranean cruise will return home to South Florida with nightmarish details. Connie Barron and her fiancé, Jay Garcia, were asleep in their cabin Friday aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship when things suddenly went wrong. “She felt the impact, the electricity went off,” [...]

Are you there? Send CNN iReport your stories, videos Porto Santo Stefano, Italy (CNN) — At first, Vivian Shafer said, she thought it was part of the magic show aboard her Mediterranean cruise. During the show, aboard the Costa Concordia, staffers had been “playing with the lights” and using smoke, “so we really weren’t that [...]

By Jane And Paul Fruen Last updated at 6:41 PM on 15th January 2012 It was probably when we reached Portofino, the midway point of our Western Mediterranean cruise, that we realised this was the sort of holiday that might easily prove addictive. When we joined the PO Cruises ship Adonia at Southampton for a [...]