New year of the records for the crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises



After 2016, a year record for the crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises is in terms of economic performances that of passengers accommodated on the ships of the fleet, in the 2017 American company have recorded new historical maximums are in terms of financial results are of crocieristi.

Last year the revenues of the group have recorded a peak of 8,78 billion dollars, with an increment of +3.3% on 2016. Also the operating profit and the profit clearly have marked new levels record attesting itself respective to 1,7e billions of dollars and 1,62 billion dollars, with increases of +18.1% and +26.6% on the year precedence.

In the 2016 ships of the group, that they are operated with the marks Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, TUI Cruises, Azamara Club Cruises and SkySea Cruise Line, they have accommodated a total almost 5,8 million passengers (+0.2%) and the days of cruise for passenger they have been altogether 40,0 million (- 0.5%).

Royal Caribbean Cruises has celebrated the conclusion of 2017 embedding also the same sequence of record relatively to the fourth trimester of the year. In the period October-December of 2017, in fact, the revenues have reached the new maximum for the trimester of 2,00 billion dollars, with an increase of +5.0% regarding 1,91 billion dollars in the fourth trimester of 2016 when the precedence was recorded record for this period. So also the operating profit and the profit clearly have turned out more consisting with respective 307,3 million dollars (+3.5%) and 288,0 million dollars (+10.3%). The new record of passengers accommodated from the ships of the group has been of 1,40 million, with a progression of +0.6% record of on the previous 1,39 million passengers in the last trimester of 2016.

In order to celebrate the shining turned out conquered in 2017 and in order to thank the dependent of the group for theirs determining contribution to the increase, Royal Caribbean Cruises has announced that it will assign an employee bonus to everyone of 66 thousand, with the exclusion of the leaders, that it will be pairs to 5% of the salary and will be distributed as actions of the company, for a total value pairs to about 80 million dollars. "Our staff - he has emphasized the president and managing director of the group, Richard Fain - is what ago to go ahead our company. We want to demonstrate our appreciation in tangible way and want that this happens independently for every employee from the level in the organization. A million graces are our idioms. Or rather: 80 million graces".

Royal Caribbean has specified that currently the level of reservations for the cruises in program in 2018 is advanced to the level record of a year makes and that also the prices of the cruises planned for this year turn out advanced to those of 2017.

Yesterday while, after the technical launch, the new cruise ship Celebrity Edge of the brand Celebrity Cruises has left the dry dock in ship yards STX in France. "The technical launch - it has emphasized Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, president and managing director of Celebrity Cruises - marks a milestone in the construction of Celebrity Edge. Now that the external hull is completed, the extraordinary team of STX will be able to realize all the atmospheres of edge so meticulously planned, included, naturally, the various cabins and the suite".

Celebrity Edge, that it will have its homeport to Fort Lauderdale in Florida, will carry out its first cruise with departure next 21 November and will realize its inaugural season alternating routes of seven nights in the Caribbean western orientals and before to move in the Mediterranean where in 2019 it will carry out a series of cruises from seven to eleven nights with departures from emblematic cities as Barcelona and Rome in 2019. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 Celebrity Edge will be placed side by side by three twin ships.