Costa Cruises has become the first smart cruise company in Italy. The “Sm@rt Working Costa – Moving Forward!” programme is targeted at all of the company’s employees in Italy and abroad, a total of around 1300 persons. (more…)

Umberto Veronesi Foundation “Pink is Good”

To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Costa Cruises will once again be joining forces with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation to support the Pink is Good project, which aims to beat breast cancer for good by promoting prevention and supporting research activities every year. (more…)

Making young people more aware about protecting the sea and the Italian coastline is the idea behind the “Guardians of the Coast”, the citizen science project promoted by Costa Crociere Foundation, which aims to create a long-term environmental snapshot of Italy’s coastline, from Liguria to Friuli Venezia Giulia, as well as Sardinia and Sicily, with the active participation of teachers and students from over 200 Italian high schools. (more…)

Costa Cruises is joining forces with Winnow to fight food waste, extending Costa’s deep commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement. (more…)

Costa Cruises has revamped its fare structure into four categories: Basic, Total Comfort Classic, Total Comfort Premium and Deluxe. The new pricing structure is available for cruises departing on or after April 1, 2018. (travelagentcentral.com)

As of 30 march 2018 Costa Victoria will return to regular cruises in the Mediterranean. The ship has been operating mainly in China since 2012, offering cruises dedicated to the local market that was opened by Costa as the first line in the world serving China. (more…)

Costa Cruises and the Fondazione Banco Alimentare Onlus present their partnership project that will allow surplus food on board cruise ships to be retrieved and reused for the first time to help society.

The dismantling and recycling of the infamous Costa Concordia cruise liner has been completed in Italy, marking the official end to final phase of what is considered the largest maritime salvage job in history. (gcaptain.com)

Mercy Ships and Costa Group have reached a key milestone in their recently announced cooperation by kicking-off a joint volunteer program supporting the hospital ship Africa Mercy. (more…)

Costa Cruises today announced it is launching new exotic itineraries in Asia for the 2017-2018 winter season, now available for its European and US guests. (more…)

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…)