| CLIA report canned

CRUISE Lines International Association (CLIA) Australasia will not be producing a report on river cruises for 2016.

In the past, river cruising had been included in CLIA Australasia’s annual Cruise Economic Report, but last year’s release excluded the sector in favour of doing a separate river cruising report.

“After collating the material for the report last year, it became apparent there were gaps in the data collection, so with the close of 2016, the decision was made to wait until river cruising could be part of a new global reporting system being introduced this year,” a spokesperson said.