Royal Caribbean Cruise Line

Slumdog Millionaire is tipped to be memorialized as Best Picture at the Oscars this Sunday, but customers are hanging up on the world of Indian call centers that it depicts. But report after report show that customers are sick of contending with polite but robotic script-reading phone operators...

For a while now, art auctions have been one of the biggest money-makers on the seas. On uneventful travel days, passengers are invited to so-called fine art viewings and auctions in the ship's "gallery," which is often just a corridor or a dormant dance floor. Once they arrive to have a gander at...