Costa Cruises and the City of Turin are announcing exciting news for summer 2017: a discovery tour of Turin for passengers on Costa Diadema, the flagship of the Italian company. (more…)

Italian cruise ship Costa NeoRomantica has made her maiden call at port Vladivostok today, 30 May 2017, reports IAA PortNews correspondent. Costa NeoRomantica has brought over a thousand of tourists from Japan and South Korea. (en.portnews.ru)

Thirty-four people who posed as tourists on Costa cruise ships have gone on trial for their part in a vast drug smuggling network that took hash from Morocco to Brazil and cocaine from South America to Europe. (thelocal.fr)

The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday by Italy’s highest court for his role in the 2012 shipwreck, which killed 32 people off the Tuscan holiday island of Giglio. (gcaptain.com)

Costa Cruises and The Wine Bank in Pollenzo, the Italian cooperative company founded by Carlo Petrini, the Slow Food Chairman, which for several years now has been actively supporting Italy’s oenological history, signed an agreement to produce a new wine list on board the ships of the Italian company. (more…)

The wonderful scenario of the Phoenix Theatre on board Costa Luminosa will represent the stage for the final phase of Queen of Poland 2017. (more…)

Costa Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation & plc said that Costa neoRomantica , which is of 57,130 gross tonnage and carries 1,800 passengers, will be based in Asia as the fifth vessel of the Italian company. (cruisebusiness.com)

An entire cruise ship has been booked to celebrate a fairy-tale wedding. For the first time ever, a ship from the Costa Cruises fleet has been reserved exclusively for the celebration of a sumptuous wedding. (more…)

For the 24th Protagonisti del Mare, Costa Cruises is presenting its new 2017/18 brochure, with 12 months of holidays, from November 2017 to November 2018.
Excitement is the theme of the brochure, which presents Costa’s product in a totally new guise. (more…)

Costa Cruises is introducing a new menu on board its ships that is the result of its special partnership with Bruno Barbieri. (more…)

Tensions are apparently running so high over the installation of the THAAD missile defense system that Chinese tourists don’t even want to visit the South Korea resort island of Jeju anymore. (shanghaiist.com)

A young crew member aboard the Costa Magica vessel which was docked at Heritage Quay pier was found hanging in his cabin yesterday afternoon, police confirmed. (antiguaobserver.com)

After years of tenacious effort, the small Spanish port of Tarragona finally succeeded in attracting the attention of a major cruise line: Costa Cruises will base its 1,727-guest Costa neoRiviera in Tarragona from 2 June to 22 September 2017 for one of its key Mediterranean operations. (cruisebusiness.com)

A special partnership was presented today in La Spezia on board Costa Diadema between Costa Cruises and the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio, that will bring all the skills and talent of the Viareggio Carnival – now 144 years old – on board the flagship of the Costa fleet. (more…)

Costa Cruises launches the new Vintage Costa, a collection of clothes and accessories, dedicated to the historic graphics and logos of the Italian cruise company. (more…)

Costa Asia has announced the successful return of China’s first cruise to the South Pacific Islands. The Costa Atlantica set sail on this 46-day voyage from Tianjin International Cruise Terminal on November 30, 2016, taking more than 2,000 passengers across two continents, visiting 12 islands in nine countries. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

It’s nearly five years to the day that the Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia capsized, killing 32 people. The vessel, carrying 4,252 people, met a tragic end in January 2012 when it hit an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio near Tuscany. (dailymail.co.uk)

The Costa Cruises 2017 Around the World Cruise will set sail from Savona on 6 January on board Costa Luminosa: a thrilling 106-day journey that will take guests on an exploration of the most wonderful sights on 5 continents, across 3 oceans and visiting 35 destinations, before returning to Savona in Italy on 22 April 2017. (more…)

Cruising retains all its appeal as a type of holiday with a vocation for attracting people even for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The 21 cruises, for a total of 65,000 berths, onboard 11 ships, offered by Costa Cruises, the Italian company leading in Europe, look like being a sell-out. (more…)

Costa Cruises, part of the Carnival Corporation & plc group, said it is launching a new international advertising campaign, to be aired on TV, social media and the Internet, with superstar Shakira back in front of the cameras. (cruisebusiness.com)

Costa Cruises announces the arrival of a new product on its ships that embodies the best of the Italian culinary tradition: authentic top-quality Italian mozzarella produced directly on board. (more…)

Costa Asia announced the Atlantica had departed on its first-ever 46-day cruise from Tianjin to the South Pacific Islands, signaling an important development in the maturing of the Chinese cruise market. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Costa Cruises launches onboard its ships “Bravo Chef: the show”, a new cooking show starring the onboard Executive Chefs and some typical Italian regional recipes and international dishes. (more…)

Costa Crociere opted to converge in a single company all shipping-agency services, currently run by different firms in each Italian port, with the final purpose to standardizing agency services provided to its cruiseships in all Italian ports. (shippax.com)

In 2017, cruise ships belonging to Costa Group Asia will visit the port of Vladivostok in the Primorye region six times, the regional authorities said on Friday. The first Costa Group Asia cruise ship visited the port this year. (tass.com)