More than 40 islands visited by cruise ships on Caribbean itineraries have a message they want to share: They are open, fully operational, welcoming ships full of cruise passengers and hoping more will follow. Included are places that saw some damage from the September hurricanes but have already recovered. (more…)

Carnival Corporation & plc announced it will shift purchasing policies across its nine leading cruise line brands by 2024 to improve the welfare of sourced chicken, becoming one of the first companies in the travel industry to commit to adopting comprehensive broiler chicken welfare policies. (more…)

Carnival Corporation remains on pace to remove one to two older, less efficient ships from its fleet on an annual basis following two recent transactions. Carnival announced earlier in the week the P&O Adonia has been sold to Azamara for a March 2018 delivery. The Adonia joins the neoClassica, which will leave the Costa fleet around the same time. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Carnival Corporation & plc announced MedallionNet™, a game-changing connectivity service enabled by SES Networks that will deliver the best Wi-Fi experience in the cruise industry. (more…)

Arnold Donald, president and CEO of Carnival Corporation, said that the company has to make sure that it informs the public there is no reason to wait to cruise in the Caribbean. “It is our job to make sure people know there is no reason to wait that the Caribbean is a wonderful place to go, many places to go there. We have 40 plus ports that were unaffected, plus our own destinations, plus all the ports in Mexico were unaffected,” he said, speaking on the company’s third quarter earnings call. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Several temporary port closures associated with the recent hurricanes have led to voyage disruptions that are expected to result in an estimated 10-to-12 cent per share reduction in fourth quarter 2017 earnings, Arnold Donald, president and CEO, Carnival Corporation, said in the cruise company’s third quarter earnings report. (travelagentcentral.com)

Executives from Carnival Corporation, led by President and CEO Arnold Donald, visited St. Maarten on Friday following Hurricane Irma. Donald met with the Minister of Tourism & Economic Affairs Mellissa Arrindell-Doncher, and members of Port St. Maarten Board and Management on Friday afternoon regarding the status of the country’s port facilities and the destination, according to a statement. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation will make an immediate donation of $2.5 million to Direct Relief, UNICEF and the United Way of Miami-Dade County to support the most timely and urgent relief needs in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

Cruise vacations are an increasingly popular way to relax, unwind and recharge. And while at sea, there’s opportunity for guests to embrace some of life’s most enjoyable pleasures – with wine-tasting and learning about wines an area of interest for many.

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) today (July 19) announced that on July 18, 2017, Jason Glen Cahilly, former chief strategic and financial officer of the National Basketball Association, has been appointed to the company’s boards of directors, effective immediately.

Carnival Corporation & plc announced a change in keeping with good corporate governance that encourages the periodic rotation of board leadership positions among directors.

Consumers in the United States and Europe should expect to see more messaging from Carnival Corp. this year. Executives revealed in an earnings call in late June that Carnival, the world’s largest cruise operator, plans to increase its spending on advertising and marketing during the fourth fiscal quarter, which ends Nov. 30. (skift.com)

Carnival Corp. reminds us that China is a small part of its business — which is true. But if the market is going to become the world’s largest as the company expects, there are a lot of complications to work through. (skift.com)

A variety of initiatives will drive future growth, according to Carnival Corporation’s president and CEO Arnold Donald, speaking on the company’s 2017 Q2 earnings call. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Carnival Corporation & plc has been named winner of the Lloyd’s List Americas 2017 Cleaner Safer Seas Solutions award for its environmental commitment to improve the quality of air emissions through first-in-the-cruise-industry adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the world’s cleanest burning fossil fuel.

Carnival Corporation & plc today announced it has signed an agreement to offer Alipay payment services onboard its cruise ship fleet in Asia, including multiple ships in China. (more…)

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), announced that CEO Arnold Donald was named the top-ranked global executive for his strong leadership and commitment to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace and for serving as an inspiring role model.