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In autumn the crocieristica company Chinese SkySea Cruise Line will stop the activity
To December the ship "Golden Era" will pass to Marella Cruises of group TUI
March 26, 2018
Hardly three years from its constitution the crocieristica company SkySea Cruise Line, that it is founded on initiative of the American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) and of the Chinese tourist group Ctrip.com International(24 November 2014), the next autumn will close down. The next cessation of the activity, announced from the two groups, does not reach completely unexpected as in the past few months Ctrip had expressed the intention to yield own participation.
The only ship of the SkySea, the Golden Era who has a tonnage of 71.545 tons and an ability to 1.814 passengers, will be acquired from the Marella Cruises company of the tourist group German TUI that will take in delivery the next December to it.
RCL and Ctrip have emphasized that to the next autumn, little more three-year-old of activity, the ship of the SkySea Cruise Line will have carried out a total almost 300 cruises accommodating altogether about 500 thousand fleeting.
Ctrip has evidenced that in China the crocieristico market has large a potential one being still developing and having reached in a 2017 total less than three million than fleeting ones regarding beyond ten million the American crocieristico market. The Chinese group has specified moreover that in the 2017 field of the cruises it has generated more of 70% of the revenues of the group and that such segment will continue to being a central element of own platform of reservations since Ctrip will continue to work with all world-wide the crocieristiche companies, included Royal Caribbean, in order to offer crocieristiche vacations to own customers.
From part its Royal Caribbean Cruise has specified that it will continue to serve the Chinese market through own mark Royal Caribbean International and being continued to collaborate with Ctrip.
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Hardly three years from its constitution the crocieristica company SkySea Cruise Line, that it is founded on initiative of the American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) and of the Chinese tourist group Ctrip.com International
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
