At Sea with Doug Newman

TUI Cruises, the new German-market joint venture between Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and TUI AG, has announced that Celebrity Cruises’ 77,713 GT, 1,896-berth Celebrity Galaxy will enter service as its first ship in May 2009. The ship, built in 1996, will undergo a 50 million Euro, two-month-long refit before beginning her new career. Her new [...]

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and German tourism and shipping conglomerate TUI AG have announced that they will form a new German cruise line, TUI Cruises, as a joint venture.
This follows on the dissolution of a proposed joint venture between TUI and Carnival Corporation & plc, which would have incorporated both the new brand and Carnival’s [...]