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Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2021 to be Held Online on May 25th 10 May 2021
The chief executives of some of the world’s biggest cruise lines will participate in the first virtual panel discussion that will kick off the
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th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2021 on May 25th.
Gianni Onorato, CEO of MSC Cruises, Michael Thamm, Group CEO Costa Group and Carnival Asia, Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI Cruises and Chris Theophilides, CEO of Celestyal Cruises will share the screen for the day’s first session titled ‘The Restart of Cruising in Europe and the Mediterranean’.
Each will share their company’s initiatives for post-pandemic cruising, their own vision for the restart and the measures and protocols each cruise line is implementing for the interim period. They will also discuss the reasons for the industry’s strong backing of the East Med as this year’s cruise hotspot, the region that in 2021 will host the highest number of cruise deployments in Europe.
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th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2021 on May 25th.
Gianni Onorato, CEO of MSC Cruises, Michael Thamm, Group CEO Costa Group and Carnival Asia, Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI Cruises and Chris Theophilides, CEO of Celestyal Cruises will share the screen for the day’s first session titled ‘The Restart of Cruising in Europe and the Mediterranean’.
Each will share their company’s initiatives for post-pandemic cruising, their own vision for the restart and the measures and protocols each cruise line is implementing for the interim period. They will also discuss the reasons for the industry’s strong backing of the East Med as this year’s cruise hotspot, the region that in 2021 will host the highest number of cruise deployments in Europe.
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Cruise travel all but “drowned” in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic which resulted in a
More specifically, according to EEKFN data, Greece recorded 267,000 passenger arrivals on 247 port calls across its cruise destinations in 2020 compared to 5.5 million arrivals on 3,899 calls in 2019.
Projections for 2021 are reserved with EEKFN President
Theodore Kontes expecting cruise arrivals to reach approximately 1.5 million this year provided vaccinations are effective and no new lockdowns are ordered.
The news comes on the back of a positive year in 2019 when according to EEKFN all of Greece’s cruise destinations recorded increased cruise activity up by 15 percent against the average annual 7 percent. Cruise sector analysts were expecting the positive trend to continue at a 10 percent rate into 2020 before Covid hit.