zamara Cruises, Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean International announce a new electronic cruise document (eDoc) and luggage tag program designed to offer guests a dynamic, one-of-a-kind pre-cruise documentation experience and simultaneously give Travel Agents an opportunity to promote their own business.

This personalized, interactive, web-based format offers guests all the information they need prior to their cruise, including Travel Agency contact details, information on Shore Excursion choices, various onboard offerings available during the guests' particular cruise, travel and documentation instructions, and much more. Once the booking has been finalized, eDocs will be issued as early as 49 days prior to sailing.

In an effort to offer guests more information in a visually appealing way with less burden on the environment, all Azamara, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean bookings made on or after December 13, 2009 will generate eDocs as the default format for guest travel documentation. eDocs will also be the default format for any bookings made before December 13, 2009 that didn't include a preference selection for hard-copy guest travel documents.


Here are just a few benefits of this new program:

* Travel Agency Recognition - our eDocs are personalized with Travel Agency name & phone number to reinforce to the guest that we are working together to deliver their vacation
* Best in Class - our interactive format will be more engaging & visually appealing than most other industry documents
* Cost Savings - no more need for our Travel Partners to incur shipping expenses to forward printed documents to their clients
* Less Admin time - we'll do the work for you. Just provide us with your client's email address at time of booking and we'll send the eDoc notification link directly to your guest & cc: your agency
* Choices - in cases where eDocs simply won't do, we will still provide a printed document option
* 24/7 access at the guest's convenience, once the eDoc is issued
* Each guest on a booking can have their own set of documents at no extra charge
* It's easy for the guest to email their itinerary to family and friends
* There is no charge to have eDocs reissued
* Guests may print selected pages or the entire document either in it's original format or a printer-friendly version
* eDocs make it easy for guests to navigate all pre-booking activities via hyperlinks
* eDocs is a more environmentally-friendly option
* eDocs have already become the preferred format for a majority of travelers