MSC Cruises has announced that it will deploy its MSC Lirica cruise ship to the Eastern Mediterranean market for the summer 2022 and homeport in Piraeus, Greece, during the entire season. MSC Lirica will offer a newly designed seven-night itinerary with 28 sailings between April 2022 and October 2023 from Piraeus calling Kusadasi, Turkey; Haifa, […]
Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Photo Source: @Thessaloniki Travel Thessaloniki is aiming to kick off the cruise season on March 6 with 60 percent of all itineraries to home port in the northern city, said Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias on Thursday. Among the first countries to restart cruise travel in 2021, Greece has prioritized increasing cruise and […]
Celestyal Cruises and its Cyprus-based parent company, Louis plc, will boost the cruise company’s brand globally through a new holding company under the name Celestyal Holdings. According to an announcement, the new venture will be carried out with funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. (“Searchlight”), a leading global private investment firm. As part of […]
Cruise ship at Thessaloniki Port. The Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) is taking action to turn the Greek northern city into a prime cruise destination, according to the authority’s BoD Executive Chairman Athanasios Liagkos. Speaking during the Next is Now conference in Athens on Wednesday, Liagkos said ThPA is carrying out a 180-million-euro investment project
Celestyal Cruises has sold its “Experience” cruise ship due to the market conditions resulting from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the cruise line said in an announcement on Friday. “Celestyal Cruises has reviewed its forward-looking capacity requirements. After careful thought and consideration, the company has sold the Experience and will continue to operate with the
Meandros Cruises, a company with a long experience in the Greek tourism industry, has resumed operations for the summer season. The company is once again offering scheduled day– and multi-day cruises from Athens to nearby destinations of the Saronic gulf including Agistri and Aegina. Its traditional wooden vessels sail every morning from Piraeus’ Zeas marina […]
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has announced the addition of Katakolon as its new embarkation port in Greece. This is the first time NCL has added a secondary homeport in Greece as part of its ongoing exploration of new itinerary options. Starting September 17, guests sailing onboard Norwegian Getaway’s immersive Mediterranean sailings in 2021 will have […]
Vassilis Karachalios, Head of Sales at Celestyal Cruises in Greece; Athanasios Liagos, Executive Chairman of Thessaloniki Port Authority; Giannis Fountoukas, Captain of Celestyal Olympia; Frosso Zaroulea, Head of Public Relations Celestyal Cruises; Maria Antoniou, Head of the PM’s Office in Thessaloniki; Voula Patoulidou, President of the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization;
NCL’s newly appointed VP of International Business Eamonn Ferrin Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is strengthening its sales strategy with the appointment of Eamonn Ferrin as Vice President of International Business. Ferrin will oversee NCL’s sales efforts outside of the US and Canada and grow the company’s international footprint by deepening existing travel relationships,
Photo source: Lavrio Port Authority Taking center stage this year as a Mediterranean cruise hub, Greece announced that it would be improving port infrastructure to meet the increasing demand of cruise ship arrivals. Speaking this week during the launch event of Celestyal Cruises’ “Idyllic Aegean” itinerary, Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis announced that upgrade works


















