Cruise sales set new world record

Recession? What recession? Bookings for the 2011 world cruises with P&O; and Cunard opened this week with record numbers putting their deposits down. On Wednesday, 2,044 people booked voyages from the two programmes, an increase of almost 50 per cent on the business done on the same day last year for the 2010 world voyages. P&O; has its biggest-ever world voyage programme on offer, with Arcadia, Artemis, Aurora setting off from Southampton in January, and Oriana offering a rare opp