Recently, Carnival Corporation & plc and the organizing committee of 14th China Cruise Shipping Conference & International Cruise Expo(CCS14) reached the cooperation agreement after a positive communication, Carnival Corporation & plc has formally become the Platinum Partner of CCS14. Carnival Corporation & plc has always been firmly confident in the Chinese cruise market and is committed to building a cruise tourism ecosystem and working with Chinese partners to promote the long-term healthy development of the cruise industry.
About Carnival
Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest leisure travel company, provides travelers around the globe with extraordinary vacations at an exceptional value with a portfolio of nine global brands featuring nine of the world’s most popular and admired cruise lines. Its portfolio includes Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard. Carnival Corporation also operates Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the Yukon.
Together, these brands comprise the world’s largest cruise company with a fleet of over 100 ships visiting over 700 ports around the world and totaling 234,000 lower berths. A total of 20 new ships are scheduled to be delivered to Carnival Corporation’s brands between 2018 and 2025.
Costa Cruises (www.costachina.com) opened its first route with China as the homeport in 2006 and thereby became the first international cruise group that carried out business in China. Over the past ten-plus years in China, Costa Cruises has been adhering to the principal of customer first, and striving to provide wonderful and superior cruise products in the spirit of keeping improving and innovating, so as to make more Chinese tourists enjoy the sheer “offshore Italy” and favorable cruise vacation, fulfilling its commitment to the Chinese market. At the moment, Costa Cruises have four ships that provide service for the Chinese consumers (Costa Venezia, Costa Serena, Costa Atlantica, and Costa NeoRomantica), and remains the only cruise company that operates in North, South, and East China all year round. In 2020, following Costa Venezia, another ship specially designed for Chinese customers will join the Costa Asia fleet to deliver a new 'Italian-flavored' tourism experience to Chinese tourists while further emphasizing Costa's commitment to the Chinese market.
One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises (www.princesschina.com) is the fastest growing international premium cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 19 modern cruise ships, carrying two million guests each year to 380 destinations around the globe, including the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Europe, South America, Australia/New Zealand, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia, Canada/New England, Antarctica and World Cruises. A team of professional destination experts have curated 170 itineraries, ranging in length from three to 111 days and Princess Cruises is continuously recognized as “Best Cruise Line for Itineraries.” In 2017 Princess Cruises, with parent company Carnival Corporation, introduced MedallionClass Vacations enabled by the OceanMedallion, provided free to each guest sailing on a MedallionClass ship. Princess now has four ships arriving over the next five years between 2020 and 2025, including two new Royal-class ships Enchanted Princess in June 2020, Discovery Princess in November 2021 and two new LNG ships in 2023 and 2025.