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Deliziosa boosts Dubai
■ NCL adds Rome and Tampa for winter 2011
Sara Macefield in Dubai.
NCL has added Rome and Tampa as home ports COSTA CRUISES’ newest ship, Costa Deliziosa,
for the 2011-12 winter/spring cruise season. From was launched in Dubai this week, and tourism
Rome, the line will offer 11-night Mediterranean chiefs hope it will propel the emirate’s cruising
and Holy Land, and 10-night Eastern Mediterranean arrivals to over 500,000 in the next few years.
cruises onboard Norwegian Jade. This will be The ceremony (pictured) took place in front of
NCL’s first return to Israel for a decade. From 3,000 guests, including members of Dubai’s
Tampa, Norwegian Star will sail a seven-night royal family and the ship’s 2,200 passengers. It
Western Caribbean itinerary. coincided with the opening of the emirate’s new
cruise terminal, which will handle 125 cruise ship
■ Spanish budget airline profits from merger calls and 325,000 passengers this year.
Spanish no-frills airline Vueling recorded a Hamad bin Mejren, executive director of expect more than 195 cruise ship calls with
¤27.7 million net profit for 2009, following its Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce 575,000 passengers.”
merger with fellow budget carrier Clickair. The Marketing, described Costa’s decision to base Costa chairman and chief executive Pier Luigi
Barcelona-based company carried 8.2 million two of its ships at Dubai this winter as a “shot in Foschi underlined the company’s own growth.
passengers in 2009, which helped it earn the arm” for the regional cruise industry. “We were the first company in the world to offer
revenue of ¤601.6 million. Vueling is now the With Royal Caribbean International also basing regular cruises from Dubai in 2006, when we
second-largest Spanish carrier behind Iberia a ship there this winter, the emirate’s cruise carried 44,000 people. This year, it will be
and operates from Heathrow to Bilbao, La industry is set to continue its growth. 150,000,” he said. He also highlighted Costa’s
Coruna and Seville. “In 2001, we had 7,000 cruise passengers,” new Red Sea cruises next year and its first world
said bin Mejren. “Last year, we had 263,000 cruise for many years, which is planned for De-
■ Merger to create new Greek national airline passengers and 80 cruise ship calls. By 2015, we cember 2011 and is already more than 30% sold.
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