Havila Voyages enters India
Holiday Moods is now the GSA for Havila Voyages, a Norwegian cruise company, and will be making sure that when Indians think about Norwegian excursions, they will think about them.
Saying that COVID-19 was hard on most companies, Singh Anand, MD, Holiday Moods, claims that they also struggled during the period, but they bounced back quickly because they were always there in almost each vertical of the industry. “The first to pick up was the domestic segment and we did well, thanks to both our camps—Snow Monk Camp in Dharamshala and Camp Wild Dhauj in the Aravallis. In fact, December 2021 was the finest we have done in the history of 18 years of the camp,” he claimed.
Havila Voyages
Apart from that, Anand revealed that they even picked up a new product and launched it in the Indian travel industry. “We have been appointed as a distributor or the GSA for Norway coastal cruise company, called Havila Voyages, which has four ships on the water and will be sailing from Bergen to Kirkenes, from South to North of Norway and back. Thus, we have a northbound voyage and south-bound voyage spanning over six nights and five nights,” he shared.
He informed that if anyone wishes to experience Norway and see the Northern Lights, or midnight sun on a cruise, there are not many options. “Havila Voyages is one of the new entrants on the block, but they are doing very well because all four ships are brand new and are identical. It is a small boutique luxury adventure, where we have only 179 cabins and 640 passengers. This is one of the first ships in the world, which has the largest battery back-up and can sail on the battery backup for four hours. Norway has announced not to allow cruise ships running on fossil fuel entry to their fjords from 2026. Thus one must be environmentally friendly
Havila Voyages offers to Indian travellers an option to cruise Norway and see the Northern Lights right from the ship's cabin
and have alternate fuels to come into the fjords. Havila has taken a lead in the same,” says the Managing Director.
Havila Voyages offers to the Indian travel industry an option to cruise Norway and see the Northern Lights right from the cruise cabin, he said.