CLIA Cruise Lines Team Up with Wellness, Fitness Experts

For a growing number of travelers, a vacation is no time to leave health and fitness behind. For them, paradise includes a spa, fitness facilities and nutritious, healthy cuisine. Increasingly, that paradise is to be found on a cruise ship.

Among approximately 175 cruise ships belonging to members of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the majority has been built since 2000 and almost all have health and fitness facilities, with full-sized luxury spas and shipboard sports facilities among the major features of the larger vessels.

More important, virtually every CLIA member ship offers delicious “spa cuisine” or other healthy dining selections, often in a choice of restaurants and dining rooms, and innovative wellness, exercise and fitness programs.

Many lines even offer theme cruises focusing on wellness and featuring some of the world’s top fitness, wellness and culinary experts. The result is exciting, new opportunities for travelers to go on vacation and rejuvenate their mind, body and soul.

In 2007 and 2008, many CLIA member lines will offer fitness, holistic or wellness programs –both on board ships and on land- and themed cruises throughout the world, from the Caribbean and Europe to Asia, Scandinavia, the Pacific, Alaska and Canada.