For a significant recovery of the cruise from 2023 onwards, executives of the sector speak to APE-MPE. They add that by 2024, global cruise travel is expected to return to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. They emphasize that this year 2022 is a transition period, pointing out that the number of cruise passengers currently carried by cruise […]
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V. Kikilias: ‘Cruise in Thessaloniki increases by 250%’
The dynamic course of the cruise was mentioned by the Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, in an interview he gave to the TV station SKAI and the show “Unmatched”, with Giannis Ntsounos and Christos Koutras. According to the Minister of Tourism, only in Rhodes – a twelve-month destination for the cruise – the number of […]
Cruise recovery and yaching
By Anastasia Vamvaka A breath of optimism that the tourism shipping industry is emerging from the storm of the pandemic – although the war turmoil and price hikes are still severe – gives the data of summer bookings to the big companies in the industry. The partial recovery that shows that it will prevail in […]
Cruise: Greece becomes a homeport destination
Her Anastasia Vamvaka The vast majority of cruise ships that already moor in Greek ports will be for homeporting, will set sail or will be ports of landing, tripling the economic benefits to GDP and adjacent cities. “There are more than 700 cruise ships that are expected to be found in the Greek seas in […]
G. Plakiotakis: More than 700 cruise ships are expected in 2022 in the Greek seas
The cruise passenger industry will be at satisfactory levels for 2022 in our country, far exceeding the numbers of 2019, a year when there were no restrictive measures against the pandemic, said Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis speaking at a special event on the cruise ship Celest Olympia, on the occasion of the start of its […]
G. Plakiotakis: We try to increase the presence of the cruise in our place
The cruise passenger industry will be at satisfactory levels for 2022 in our country, far exceeding the numbers of 2019, a year when there were no restrictive measures against the pandemic, said Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis speaking at a special event on the cruise ship Celest Olympia, on the occasion of the start of its […]
Piraeus Homeport for MSC Lirica
By Anastasia Vamvaka The MSC Lirica, the ultra-luxury cruise ship with 2,679 passengers and 721 crew members, the third largest cruise company in the world, is moored in the port of Piraeus and is preparing for its first cruise. Moderate optimism in the cruise industry remains at the very end of the season, despite the […]
The unmanned taxi “ran away” from the police, but after a few seconds it still stopped. In the US, there was an interesting story with the car Cruise
The other day in San Francisco there was a funny situation with an unmanned taxi GM Cruise. The police decided to stop such a car. Presumably, due to the fact that the car for some reason moved in the dark with the headlights off. The eyewitness did not film the video from the very beginning, […]
The cruise in Greece is in a state of optimism
Her Anastasia Vamvaka George Koubenas, President of the Association of Cruise Shipowners and Shipping Operators, expressed optimism for the increase of cruise ship approaches in Greek ports and islands during the press conference of Celestyal Cruises. “The number of announcements of approaches in Greek ports is particularly high with a large number of ships based […]
EEKFN: We hope that the cruise will not be seriously affected by the events in Ukraine
“The hope is that the cruise industry will not be seriously affected by the events in Ukraine this year,” said George Koumpenas, president of the Association of Cruise Shipowners and Shipping Operators, at today’s annual general meeting. Mr. Koubenas said that the cruise industry in 2021, made its restart to a small extent due to […]