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The Vancouver Province - Cruise News 
January 28th, 2001 

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By Frank Ogden 
Futurist 
 

Many cruise-ship travellers today, espeially those on the top-of-the-line ships, are looking for more than merely being pampered, eating the best variety of food in the world and finding ample sun, sea, sky, and soft adventure. 

Exotic ports along with triple pools, New York-style floor shows and 24-hour-a-day dining have been added. Now the are starting to offer something else: food for the brain. 

Recently, Crystal Cruise Lines invited me to participate in their new Crystal Vision Enhancement Lecture Series. Along with Bill Miller, world authority on cruise ships and others, we did our presentations while the ship was "at sea." 

On this cruise, we spend quite a few days sailing major distances between ports. The venue was in either of the four major aboard-ship theatres complete with top staff and full acoustical and video-presentation equipment. 

My lectures were well received as those in Crystal audiences have proven their ability to reach certain levels of influence and affluence and are very interested in their tomorrows. 

It also gave me the opportunity to mingle, afer show time and during the cruise, with dozens of top executives, entrepreneurs and their wives. (Carol, my travel-writer wife was along as chaperone.) 

In addition, I also had the opportunity to research material, while in Cartagena, Colombia, for a book I am working on.  

That city was the headquarters for much of the Latin America during the infamous Inquisition. 

That museum isn't for everybody. 

Jump aboard the new brainfood chain. Go cruising. 

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