The newest member of the Carnival fleet, Carnival Magic, made its debut appearance in the U.S. serenaded by Grammy Award winning band Maroon 5 there to perform at the celebration in Galveston, the ship’s homeport. Over 4000 guests turned up to witness the 3690 passenger vessel sail into Galveston, Texas, after completing its Transatlantic voyage. [...]
Cruise Jobs
Norwegian Cruise Lines’ newest ship, the Norwegian Breakaway is set to depart on its maiden voyage in May 2013, with bookings opening today (17th October 2011) for her launch in April 2013. The first cruise will depart from Southampton, UK on a 7 day transatlantic voyage arriving in New York where it will be based, [...]
Cruise ship and cruise line jobs are coming to Portland, Maine. City officials made the announcement last week that there would be a new pier that has the capacity for the world’s largest cruise liners. The pier is 1200 foot long and will allow 2 large cruise liners to dock on either end at the [...]
At least 200 new cruise ship jobs could be created in Galway Harbor in Ireland, beginning in the year 2013. The Galway Harbor company has €120 million plans for a deepwater Harbor development for cruise ships north of the Marina. In 2009 The Marina was recently upgraded for the Volvo Ocean race, now they are [...]
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is hiring 100 call center operators for its Springfield branch in Lane County. This is good news for the people of Lane County who currently have 17,000 people without jobs and who will also experience the loss of 450 jobs at the closing of their Coburg Factory which was announced earlier [...]
The cruise industry is still retaining its popularity despite the recession, and many people are choosing shorter weekend cruises to get away from it all and to relax. Working on a cruise ship is one of the best jobs that you could have for a number of reasons. Firstly there is the chance to travel [...]
The largest cruise liner to ever be built and named in Germany, Celebrity Silhouette, was just launched at the Graasbrook Terminal in Hafen City, Hamburg on Thursday and will be one of 120 cruise liners to visit the port during 2011. Celebrity Silhouette from Celebrity Cruises cost £500 million to build and can accommodate more [...]
New resorts opening in the Bahamas and Australia are bringing over 800 beach resort jobs to those areas in the next few months. The development in Australia, called the Wyndham Hervey Bay Resort, cost $120 million and is situated along the Fraser Coast. It will offer about 100 hospitality jobs to the area and developer [...]
Marriott International, one of the biggest hotel chains in the world is aiming to offer around 50 thousand resort jobs by the end of 2011 and to help spread the word, they have decided to offer a Facebook game similar to the popular Farmville and Cityville games which have over 135 million active monthly users [...]
Two brand new resorts planned for Wales and the Hudson River Valley area are promising lots of new resort jobs. The world class resort planned in Wales is said to bring 600 jobs, whilst the new Rosendale will bring 1000 new resort jobs to the Hudson River Valley area, and inject roughly $200 million into [...]
