travelers interested in a niche cruise can now learn about the variety of products available and to find a travel agency that specializes in niche markets are cruising through a comprehensive website.

The Niche Cruise Marketing Alliance has a new, user-friendly website unveiled at www. nichecruise. com, which not only information about the unique cruise products of the organizations 14 member lines offered, but also helps consumers in locating a travel agent specializing in niche markets cruises.

Niche cruises offer more intimate experiences than the mass market cruise lines. These products sail to many remote destinations that are inaccessible to larger vessels and have unique learning experience and environment. You sail to locales where those traveling companion or exotic animals can be a breathtaking landscape. Niche cruise ships anchored in addition to sea lions or iguanas on the base of a tidewater glacier, in the historic center of the great cities of the world or place the host sailing yacht mans the blue waters of the Caribbean.

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The new website is certified in consumer Niche Cruise Specialists so that they from a travel agency that is in the exploration of this unique vacation options are expertly served.

On the site, each member with a brief description of the nature of the product offered support, but also contains contact information and links to the websites for each of the 14 individual lines.

Visitors to the site can enter their zip code and find prospective Niche Cruise Specialists (travel agents who have completed the NCMA seminar) in the vicinity of her house. Niche Cruise Specialists can also input by the agent or agency, or the name of the city where the agency is located.

By Destination Map feature on the site visitors can click on the part of the world that they like to explore and the page will show them what cruise lines offer experiences to that location.

While most travelers think of cruising as sun and fun experience with thousands of fellow passengers, NCMA includes a variety of cruise lines, the varying needs and interests of the increasingly sophisticated traveler.

Personal enrichment and environmental protection are on the agendas of niche cruise lines high. Therefore, NCMA lines are heavily destination-focused with unique itineraries and shore excursions.

The organization is a collection of cruise lines that some of the finest travel experiences available today are, with the common denominator offer an interesting alternative to traditional cruise. The diverse sailings offer the discriminating traveler alternatives to the standard Caribbean cruise or the typical mass-market cruise, a variety of unique adventures on the waterways of the world.

NCMA member lines include American Cruise Lines American West Steamboat Company, Antarctic Dream Expeditions, Cruise West, Discovery World Cruises, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, Galapagos Explorer II (Canodros), Imperial Majesty Cruises, Imperial River Cruise Lines, Hurtigruten, Orion Expedition Cruises, Peter Deilmann Cruises, River Barge Excursion Lines and Star Clippers.

The NCMA office is in Bellevue, Wash., a suburb of Seattle. Executive Director Lawrence Dessler can be reached at 425th 867. 0399, by fax at 425th 867. 0589 or by e-mail to msn NicheCruise @. com For more information, visit www. nichecruise. com

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