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TUI Cruises has revealed outstanding new features for the upcoming Mein Schiff 8, which will be a new class of vessel for the German cruise line and the largest ever built for their fleet. (more…)
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TUI River Cruises has increased its range of activities on offer for customers while on board, providing guests with the perfect opportunity to get the most out of their cruise while taking in the sights of Europe’s most picturesque rivers. (more…)
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The cruise operations of the German tour operator TUI AG staged a strong recovery in the second quarter of its financial year due to the absence of Covid-19 restrictions that had plagued it in the same period a year earlier. (more…)
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TUI Cruises, a joint venture between TUI AG and Royal Caribbean Group, said it would set up a Destinations department for its contemporary market Mein Schiff brand, effective immediately. (more…)
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TUI Cruises celebrated the traditional keel-laying and coin ceremony of its newest ship, the Mein Schiff 7 to be completed in 2024. (more…)
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With its entire seven-ship fleet in service, TUI Cruises has a global footprint for the winter 2022-2023 cruise season. (more…)
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TUI Cruises recently revealed the first details of its next newbuild, the Mein Schiff 7. (more…)
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Last Monday the Alexandria Port Authority received the cruise ship Mein Schiff 6 coming from the Turkish port of Antalya, carrying 3125 Pax, including 2,206 tourists and 919 crew members of different nationalities whom spent a memorable day visiting great Egyptian touristic sightseeing, in a perfect weather. (more…)
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Recovery of the cruise operations of TUI AG, the German tour operator, continues in line with the company’s expectations, it said in a statement. (more…)
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Sebastian Ebel, currently Chief Financial Officer, is to become CEO of TUI. After around ten years at the helm, Fritz Joussen will hand over his position as CEO of the tourism group at the end of September. (more…)
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The steel cutting of the first of 2 new-concept gas powered ships (Liquified Natural Gas –LNG) for TUI Cruises took place at the presence of Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI, and Luigi Matarazzo, General Manager Merchant Ship Division of Fincantieri at Centro Servizi Navali, a company specialized in logistics and production of sheet metal for the Fincantieri yards located in north eastern Italy. (more…)
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The traditional steel-cutting ceremony initiated the construction of the last ship in the Mein Schiff series at the Turku shipyard on Tuesday 14th June. (more…)
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On Friday 3 June 2022, Dubrovnik Port Authority welcomed for the first time TUI Cruises vessel, MEIN SCHIFF 5, arriving to Dubrovnik from Bari and heading to Trieste, Italy. (more…)
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With its entire fleet now back in service, TUI Cruises will offer a complete summer program in 2022. Focusing on its core markets, the German brand will have almost all of its capacity Europe. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Isla, the third and final ship to join the TUI River Cruises fleet set sail on her first ever itinerary, Rhine Explorer 2 today (1 April 2022), following a Christening event earlier this week. (more…)
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TUI Group has reported its key figures for fiscal year 2021. According to the report, the group made revenue of 27 million euros in cruises, which is 445.6 million less than during fiscal year 2020. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises has stated that it is suspending the Asian deployment of the “Mein Schiff 5”, which was due to start in November 2021, and taking the 2,500-passenger vessel out of service. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI River Cruises has finally launched its first river ship after an 18 month delay due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Godmother Catherine Hawkins christened TUI Maya, the first of three sister ships, in Mainz, Germany, complete with pyrotechnics and a champagne smash on Thursday. (cruisecritic.co.uk)
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TUI River Cruises and Marella Cruises have revealed their winter 2022 programs, which go on sale today. According to a press release, TUI River Cruises has announced five new itineraries sailing over the Christmas and New Year period, and Marella Cruises has added a new sailing from Barbados onboard Marella Discovery from February 2023. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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COLUMBIA Cruise Services (CCS) has been appointed to recruit medical professionals for the Mein Schiff fleet of ships owned and operated by TUI Cruises. (more…)
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TUI Cruises is set to grow in size and reach, according to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. The newspaper reported that British cruise line Marella Cruises, which is currently owned by TUI Group, will be integrated into TUI Cruises – a joint venture between TUI Group and Royal Caribbean Group. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises is resuming operations in Greece today, sailing the Mein Schiff 5 roundtrip from Crete. Approximately 1,000 guests are slated to board today, according to TUI, and Mein Schiff 5 will depart tomorrow at 9 a.m. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises is marking its return to the eastern Mediterranean on May 13 with the Mein Schiff 5, which will offer two different one-week itineraries sailing from Crete to either Rhodes, Piraeus (Athens) and Souda (Chania) or Corfu, Katakolon and Piraeus. (Cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Citing ongoing uncertainty around travel restrictions, TUI River Cruises has again extended its pause in setting sail. The first customer sailing will now be onboard TUI Skyla on June 28 2021 sailing from Budapest. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises is swapping ships in the Canary Islands, with the Mein Schiff 1 set to assume the Mein Schiff 6’s program of cruises. According to “Schiff and Kreuzfahrten”, the Mein Schiff 6 will return to Germany later this month for engine repairs. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI has launched various Black Friday promotions in an effort to drive bookings: “Those dreaming of their next holiday post-lockdown will be able to grab a deal for their perfect break in 2021 with a wide range of special offers across TUI UK brands from Monday Nov. 23,” the company said in a press release. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Citing a directive from local goverment authorities, TUI Cruises is cancelling its remaining 2020 cruise program from Kiel with the Mein Schiff 1, which was sailing cruises to nowhere, featuring all sea days. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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From 5 November 2020 TUI River Cruises and Marella Cruises summer 2022 programmes will be on sale. TUI River Cruises has announced that one of three ships, TUI Maya, will become All Inclusive as standard and Marella Cruises have six additional itineraries available across three of the ships, with another itinerary on Marella Discovery on sale from 10th December. (more…)
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False positives were a temporary setback for TUI Cruises and the Mein Schiff 6 as the German cruise operator said that previous positive COVID-19 tests were now negative. Sailing with limited capacity in Greece, the ship docked in Piraeus on Tuesday morning following 12 crew who had tested positive for COVID-19. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises said that 12 crew onboard the Mein Schiff 6 that had tested positive for COVID-19 have now tested negative following two further tests, carried out by TUI Cruises and Greek Authorities. The Mein Schiff 6, however, continues to sit docked in Piraeus. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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On July 24 Mein Schiff 2 set sail from Hamburg on a three-day scenic cruise to Norway. For TUI Cruises and the wider cruise industry this was a momentous occasion. (more…)
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Europe’s leading travel company, TUI, has begun a 100-day countdown to the launch of its newest venture TUI River Cruises. The river ships will set sail from Thursday 26 November with Christmas and New Year itineraries and a full programme from April 2021. (more…)
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The TUI Cruises restart is going so well the company is expanding to three ships as the Mein Schiff 6 will sail round-trip cruises from Crete in September with port calls. The first week-long sailing will depart on Sept. 13. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Group said summer 2021 holiday bookings are up 145 percent in its third quarter earnings release on Thursday, also adding that some of the momentum is customers rebooking. The numbers include hotel, cruise and resort bookings.
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The TUI cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 – literally “My Ship 2” – set sail for a weekend cruise in the North Sea late on Friday night, the dpa news agency reported. (countypress.co.uk)
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After the forced shutdown due to COVID-19, several ships will soon resume service. TUI, AIDA, and American Queen will be able to take advantage of special software features from MarineXchange, provider of the only enterprise platform for the cruise industry and leader for cruise-specific mobile enterprise solutions. (more…)
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TUI Cruises is already doubling capacity and spinning up a second ship as the Mein Schiff 1 will restart service at 60 percent occupancy out of Kiel in August, according to the German cruise company. This follows the Mein Schiff 2, which resumes service later this month with short cruises from Hamburg. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Benny Weidacher has been named vice president of operations at TUI Cruises,taking over from Ferdinand Strohmeier who is leaving the cruise company to start as CEO at the Portuguese expedition cruise operator Mystic Cruises. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI Cruises said it will restart cruises as soon as this summer with short, three- and four-day sailings in the North and Baltic Sea from German homeports. “Having implemented comprehensive health and safety protocols onboard our vessels, we also plan to begin a gradual restart of our cruise business,” said TUI Group, in a prepared statement. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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TUI AG, the German tour operator that also has three cruise brands in its portfolio, says the current crisis will drive further digitalisation of its business. The group’s cruise operations that comprise the fully owned Marella Cruises unit in the UK and 50% stake in TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd, reported a sharp weakening of results in the three months to 31 March. (cruisebusiness.com)
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