| CLIA and ACA to join hands?

CLIA Australasia and the Australian Cruise Association (ACA) will meet soon to discuss “common ground”, Steve Odell, CLIA Australasia chairman told Cruise Weekly yesterday at the release of the 2015/16 economic report commissioned by CLIA (see page one).

Commenting on the similarity of the CLIA report and ACA’s Economic Impact Report released in Sep (CW 08 Sep, Odell said while the methodology of the two reports was a bit different, “fundamentally, they’re saying the same thing.

“I believe that’s something we need to come together on and we are discussing that because really, the statements are close and the story is great, but two statements probably don’t make sense.”

Joel Jatz, incoming CLIA Australasia managing director is pictured above with Odell on board Explorer of the Seas, where the stats were presented to cruise heavyweights & media yesterday.