Tagged: Costa Cruises

Costa Crociere celebrated Carbonara Day on April 6 aboard 10 of its ships. The day was organized by the International Pasta Organization and the Associazone delle Industrie del Dolce e della Pasta, consisting of Italian pasta and bakery product companies. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

In its 70th anniversary year, the ships in the Costa Cruises fleet will feature a new livery that pays tribute to Italy, the company’s homeland since its foundation. A stylised Italian flag, as well as the name of the ship, will be painted on the bow in a specially designed new font in larger lettering than previously. (more…)

Costa Cruises has started selling tickets for the inaugural cruise of Costa Venezia, the Italian company’s new ship currently being built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone. The cruise will set off from Trieste on 8 March 2019, on a 53 day, eastward-bound itinerary in the footsteps of Marco Polo that will end in Yokohama, in Japan, on 29 April 2019. (more…)

For the fifth year running, Costa Cruises is one of the best Italian companies to work for. That’s what the Top Employers Institute has decided, which awarded the company its prestigious Top Employers Italy 2018 certification. (more…)

Costa Cruises has kicked-off its official partnership with football club Juventus onboarding the Costa Serena. As the first branch of the Juventus football club to open at sea, guests can now experience the fun of playing on the open seas, Costa said in a statement, while learning more about the 120-year history of Juventus. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Featuring the city’s picturesque skyline, the J Winter Fashion Show 2018 premiered 6 haute couture and pret-a-couture collections from Europe, Asia, South America, and America, designed by Ani Alvarez Calderon, Syeda Amera, Mimi Tran, Patricia Nascimento, Nordic Angels and XIAOFEN COUTURE. (more…)

Costa Cruises has today unveiled its 4GOODFOOD program, whose aim is to halve food waste on board the Italian company’s ships by 2020. (more…)

On 6 January 2018 the Costa Luminosa will set sail from Venice on the Around the World Cruise: a thrilling 106-day journey that will take Costa guests on a tour of the most wonderful sights on the planet, travelling across 3 oceans and visiting 41 destinations before returning to Venice on 22 April. (more…)

Costa Cruises is launching a new international ad campaign to be aired on TV, in social media and on the web, featuring the superstar Shakira. The central theme will be happiness, building on the concept of the slogan used in the two previous campaigns: “Welcome to happiness”. (more…)

Costa Crociere is making a big deployment move in China and announced earlier this week the Costa Atlantica will now homeport in Shenzhen starting in late January and continuing for the rest of 2018. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Regional correspondent Arlina Arshad discovered a different type of holiday when she spent five days on an Islamic cruise that made headlines when three foreign preachers scheduled to join it were denied entry into Singapore. (straitstimes.com)

The joint project between Costa Cruises and food-bank charity Fondazione Banco Alimentare Onlus to recover surplus food produced on cruise ships and re-use it for good causes goes from strength to strength. (more…)

Costa Cruises announces major improvements on board its ships Costa Magica and Costa Pacifica, in order to further enhance the cruise experience offered to its guests. (more…)

A French passenger was thrown off a luxury cruise liner in the Indian Ocean for staging a “mutiny” after the captain cancelled two island stops and gave appalled customers €150 (£133) to spend on board by way of recompense. (telegraph.co.uk)

From 4 to 9 November David Hasselhoff will be the guest star on board Costa Favolosa: a cruise dedicated to the actor who has delighted millions of fans in the roles of Mitch from Baywatch and Michael Knight in Knight Rider. (more…)

Whether it is long or short, “al dente” or well-cooked or garnished with tomato sauce or pesto sauce, pasta has always been the undisputed queen of the dinner table in Italy but also elsewhere in the world. (more…)

Costa Cruises has become the first smart cruise company in Italy. The “Sm@rt Working Costa – Moving Forward!” programme is targeted at all of the company’s employees in Italy and abroad, a total of around 1300 persons. (more…)

Making young people more aware about protecting the sea and the Italian coastline is the idea behind the “Guardians of the Coast”, the citizen science project promoted by Costa Crociere Foundation, which aims to create a long-term environmental snapshot of Italy’s coastline, from Liguria to Friuli Venezia Giulia, as well as Sardinia and Sicily, with the active participation of teachers and students from over 200 Italian high schools. (more…)

Costa Cruises is joining forces with Winnow to fight food waste, extending Costa’s deep commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement. (more…)

Costa Cruises has revamped its fare structure into four categories: Basic, Total Comfort Classic, Total Comfort Premium and Deluxe. The new pricing structure is available for cruises departing on or after April 1, 2018. (travelagentcentral.com)

As of 30 march 2018 Costa Victoria will return to regular cruises in the Mediterranean. The ship has been operating mainly in China since 2012, offering cruises dedicated to the local market that was opened by Costa as the first line in the world serving China. (more…)

Costa Cruises and the Fondazione Banco Alimentare Onlus present their partnership project that will allow surplus food on board cruise ships to be retrieved and reused for the first time to help society.

The dismantling and recycling of the infamous Costa Concordia cruise liner has been completed in Italy, marking the official end to final phase of what is considered the largest maritime salvage job in history. (gcaptain.com)

Mercy Ships and Costa Group have reached a key milestone in their recently announced cooperation by kicking-off a joint volunteer program supporting the hospital ship Africa Mercy. (more…)

Costa Cruises today announced it is launching new exotic itineraries in Asia for the 2017-2018 winter season, now available for its European and US guests. (more…)

Costa Cruises and the City of Turin are announcing exciting news for summer 2017: a discovery tour of Turin for passengers on Costa Diadema, the flagship of the Italian company. (more…)

Italian cruise ship Costa NeoRomantica has made her maiden call at port Vladivostok today, 30 May 2017, reports IAA PortNews correspondent. Costa NeoRomantica has brought over a thousand of tourists from Japan and South Korea. (en.portnews.ru)

Thirty-four people who posed as tourists on Costa cruise ships have gone on trial for their part in a vast drug smuggling network that took hash from Morocco to Brazil and cocaine from South America to Europe. (thelocal.fr)

The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday by Italy’s highest court for his role in the 2012 shipwreck, which killed 32 people off the Tuscan holiday island of Giglio. (gcaptain.com)