MIAMI, Jan. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's
largest leisure travel company, continued its long history of
achieving outside recognition for providing its over 12 million
annual guests with extraordinary vacation experiences, earning over
600 awards and honors in 2018 across its nine global cruise line
brands.
The corporation and its brands were recognized for excellence in
vacation value, cruise ships, shore excursions, onboard
entertainment, dining, itineraries, company leadership and more.
Since 2016, Carnival Corporation has received over 1,500 industry
awards recognizing the world-class experiences provided by its nine
cruise line brands.
Carnival Corporation and its brands were consistently recognized
in the industry's top awards programs in 2018, collecting over 145
Cruise Critic Awards, 25 USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards,
over 50 Travel Weekly awards and over 20 Porthole Cruise awards.
Examples include:
- AIDA Cruises received the German Gas Industry Innovation
Award and Cruise Guide 2018 Award for innovation for its newest
ship, AIDAnova, the world's first ship powered by LNG at sea and in
port. The brand also received the German Fairness Award from the
German Institute for Service Quality for the fifth year in a
row.
- Carnival Cruise Line was named America's Most Trusted
Cruise Line by Reader's Digest for the fourth consecutive year, and
received 10 USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice honors, including Best
Ocean Cruise Line and Best Cruise Ship for Families.
- Costa Cruises was recognized by Seatrade for Corporate
Social Responsibility for its 4GOODFOOD program, which aims to cut
food waste in half on board its ships by 2020, and was also awarded
the "Top Employers Italy" certification by the Top Employers
Institute for the fifth consecutive year. Also, the brand received
the WTM World Travel Leaders Award for Italy and set a Guinness World Record for the
longest string of bunting ever at its Costa Zena Festival, which
celebrated Costa Cruises' 70th anniversary.
- Cunard was recognized with several Porthole Cruise 2018
Readers' Choice Awards, including Best Onboard Enrichment and Best
Service. It also received the No. 1 Mega-Ship Ocean Cruise Line award in Travel +
Leisure's 2018 World's Best Awards readers' survey for the third
consecutive year.
- Holland America Line
received over 100 awards during the year, including 45-plus Cruise
Critic awards and 26 Travel Weekly awards. The brand's private
island destination, Half Moon Cay, was recognized as Best Private
Island in Travel Weekly Readers' Choice Awards and Porthole Cruise
Readers' Choice Awards.
- P&O Cruises Australia again won Most Trusted
Cruise Operator in Reader's Digest Australia's annual 2018 Trusted
Brands, was named Best Contemporary Cruise Line for a third
consecutive year by Cruise Passenger magazine and was honored with
Cruise Critic Australia 2018 Editors' Pick for Best Ship
Refurbishment for Pacific Aria.
- P&O Cruises UK received several British Cruise
Awards, including top recognition in the categories of Best for New
to Cruise and Best for On Board Entertainment, in addition to
Favorite Ocean Cruise Line in the World of Cruising Wave
Awards.
- Princess Cruises received seven USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards,
including Best Large Ship for Regal Princess and Best Food at Sea
for Royal Princess. The brand was also named Best Alaska Cruise
Line in AFAR.com's Travelers' Choice Awards and Healthiest Cruises
in SHAPE Magazine's Healthy Travel Awards. In addition, Cruise
Critic's editors awarded Princess Cruises Best Itineraries, Cabins
and Shore Excursions in the U.S. in its 11th Annual
Editors' Picks Awards.
- Seabourn received the top rank in the Condé Nast
Traveler Readers' Choice Awards for Best Small Ship Cruise Line for
the eighth time in the last 10 years, and was named to the
publication's Gold List for the 25th consecutive year.
Seabourn was also honored by U.S. News & World Report's Best
Cruise Line awards for Best Luxury Cruise Line and Best in the
Mediterranean.
Additional notable honors included Carnival Corporation's
recognition as one of the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2018
by Corporate Responsibility Magazine (CRM) and one of America's
Best Large Employers by Forbes. The corporation was also named a
CES Innovation Awards Honoree for its revolutionary
OceanMedallionTM wearable device.
Several of Carnival Corporation's leaders were recognized as
major cruise industry agents of change, including 11 leaders named
to Travel Agent Central's list of The Most Innovative People in
Cruise Travel 2018, in addition to both Carnival Corporation
Chairman Micky Arison and CEO
Arnold Donald being named as two of
Florida's 500 most influential business leaders by Florida Trend.
Carnival Corporation was also recognized in business operations
fields such as sustainability, diversity, corporate responsibility
and innovation, including Excellence in Maritime Safety, Most
Eco-Friendly Cruise Line, Best for Guests with Disabilities and
Best Cruise Line for LGBTQ Travel.
"Each of our brands and our 120,000 passionate and dedicated
employees around the world play a huge part in our goal of
consistently exceeding our guests' expectations every day," said
Roger Frizzell, chief communications
officer for Carnival Corporation. "We take great pride in providing
the best vacation experiences in the world at an exceptional value
and we continue to welcome more and more guests every year. On
behalf of our nine iconic and immensely popular cruise line brands,
we are honored to be recognized with these prestigious awards. The
third-party recognition means a great deal to all of us – and
further inspires our passion for providing our guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences"
In addition to Carnival Corporation and its nine cruise line
brands taking home awards, the company's popular Ocean Originals TV
programs also received top entertainment industry awards, including
14 Telly Awards and three Parents' Choice Awards Stamps of
Approval, in addition to two Daytime Emmy nominations.
Overall, the global cruise market has grown to an estimated 30
million people who are expected to take an ocean cruise in 2019, an
all-time record and overall increase of more than 68 percent over
the past 10 years with an average increase of more than one million
new cruisers each year. Of these, nearly half will sail on a
Carnival Corporation cruise line brand.
A complete list of Carnival Corporation's 2018 awards and
recognitions can be found here.
About Carnival Corporation
& plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is the
world's largest leisure travel company and among the most
profitable and financially strong in the cruise and vacation
industries, with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise
lines. With operations in North America, Australia,
Europe and Asia, its
portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland
America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Together, the corporation's cruise lines
operate 105 ships with 242,000 lower berths
visiting over 700 ports around the world, with 20 new
ships scheduled to be delivered through 2025. Carnival
Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess
Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the
Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London
Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the
only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and
the FTSE 100 indices.
With a long history of innovation and providing guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences, Carnival Corporation has
received thousands of industry awards – including recognition by
the Consumer Technology Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation
Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A revolutionary wearable device
that contains a proprietary blend of communication technologies,
OceanMedallion enables the world's first interactive guest
experience platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale
into a highly personalized level of customized service. The
prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor outstanding design and
engineering in consumer technology products.
Additional information can be found
on www.carnival.com, www.princess.com,
www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com,
www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com,
and www.cunard.com.
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