Organisations will promote cruise business in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Adriatic Sea
By
Elizabeth Robinson |
MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, and Cruise Lines International Association, Europe (CLIA Europe), have signed a new partnership agreement.
The organisations will work together to promote cruise business in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea, Adriatic Sea, North Africa and near Atlantic.
“We are delighted to be working so closely with MedCruise, we both have distinct areas of expertise and represent a broad membership and this partnership will enhance both our operations,” said Kyriakos Anastassiadis, chairman of CLIA Europe.
Under the new deal, MedCruise and CLIA Europe will share statistics, studies and reports of common interest on trends in the industry and create new standalone studies related to the cruise industry.
“The cruise lines are extremely important to MedCruise’s members and it is vital that we work closer together,” said Airam Díaz Pastor, president of MedCruise. “Today we signify that we want to build a stronger relationship between ports and cruise lines which will help us both to grow the contribution the cruise sector makes to the region that represents the 15.8% of the cruise ships global deployment share.”