11-Minute radio interview with Jimmy Murphy, Chairman and Co-Owner of river cruise line AmaWaterways, on the top-rated nationaly syndicated Travel Show hosted by Arthur and Pauline Frommer. Long time friends from the travel business, Arthur Frommer and Jimmy Murphy go through why river cruising has gotten so popular in the last ten yeasr. AmaWaterways is the premier river cruise line in the business that is now operating 12 luxuriously appointed ships throughout Europe, in Russia and in Vietnam/Cambodia on the Mekong River. Founded in 2002, AmaWaterways all-inclusive vacation packages offer the best value, finest in cuisine, best in customer service and is constantly innovating to keep its customers satisfied. Jimmy Murphy has been a major force in the modern travel industry after founding Brendan Tours in 1968, which at the time concentrated on tourism to Ireland and the South Pacific. As 2011 kicks in, premier river cruse line AmaWaterways can look back with pride on an award winning and Ama-Zing 2010. In the previous year the AmaWaterways fleet was expanding rapidly while existing ships were retrofitted with the latest amenities and inventions, unparalleled on-board services were continuously fine tuned for the highest customer satisfaction, new itineraries and specialty programs and such as the Wine River Cruise, were constantly being explored and tested for possible addition to an already stellar product line. Such facts are the reasons why AmaWaterways won two Magellan Awards from Travel Weekly, an Award of Excellence form Luxury Travel Advisor, a Cruise Passenger Readers Choice Award in Australia for Best River Ship and was recognized for its Twitter account that put AmaWaterways on the list of "The Top 25 Online Cruise Vacation Influencers" by Influencers in Travel. For more info about river cruising with AmaWaterways go to www.amawaterwayspr.com