Cruising Asia

There's interesting news coming from the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Conference last week. That's right -- I follow 'em all!

Forget the Caribbean and South America -- the next big thing in cruising is the Asia/Pacific region.

And really, for those who are a little intimidated by the, well, exoticness of the far east this might be a great way to experience something new.

First off some infrastructure changes need to be made. The Port of Shanghai is constructing a 300,000-square-foot terminal to handle three 80,000-gross-ton cruise ships, according to this Associated Press article. In addition, "two other ports in north China, Dalian and Qingdao, can hold large cruise ships, and both are set to have new cruise terminals within the next three years."