Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL) andCtrip.com International Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTRP) today announced that they have agreed to form a strategic partnership through SkySea Cruises.
Carnival Corp., responding to the growing use of social media by cruise passengers, is updating its onboard Internet service to provide as much as a 10-fold increase in speed.
Chinese cruise industry is expected to be one of the largest cruise markets in the world with 4.5 million passengers by 2020, Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT).
China is looking to build its first luxury cruise vessel, with help from cruise operator Carnival Corp and Italian shipyard Fincantieri SpA, .
Ctrip.com International has entered into an agreement to acquire Celebrity Century, a 1,814-passenger cruise ship, from Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Carnival Corp. is laser-focused on making the most from the huge emerging vacation market in China. So focused, in fact, that COO Alan Buckelew is moving to Shanghai.
Ctrip has publicly announced a “Chinese language Cruise Reservation Platform”, revealing a shift of their cruise reservation system to the open platform model.
The sale of the Celebrity Century to the Chinese travel agency Ctrip opens a second way for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCCL) to develop a passenger business in the world’s most populous country.