Celebrity Cruises considers offering Seychelles focused cruises

Celebrity Cruises, one of the leading cruising companies in the world, is considering offering special cruises to the Indian Ocean focused on the Seychelles in its 2013/2014 cruising program.

Celebrity Cruises, one of the leading cruising companies in the world, is considering offering special cruises to the Indian Ocean focused on the Seychelles in its 2013/2014 cruising program. This was revealed to the islandโ€™s founding President, Sir James R. Mancham, by Mr. Bernt Reitan, a former Chief Executive Officer of the American Aluminum Corporation, who is at the moment a member of the Board of Directors of Royal Caribbean Cruises headquartered in Miami, Florida, with which Celebrity Cruises is commercially associated.

Mr. Mancham met Mr. Reitan at the official dinner hosted on Monday, January 14, by Captain Costas Nestoroudis, Master of Celebrity Solstice, which is one of the most modern and beautiful cruise ships afloat today.

The founding President and his wife Catherine boarded the Celebrity Solstice in Auckland, New Zealand, on January 4, 2013 on a 14-day cruise which terminated in Sydney, Australia, on January 16, following visits to Tauranga, Akaroa, Wellington, Dunedine, Milford, Doubtful Dusky Sounds in New Zealand, and Hobart in Tasmania.

The 122,000-ton Celebrity Solstice carries some 3,000 passengers plus a crew of 1,200 officers, staff, and service personnel.

In a statement issued in Sydney on January 16, the Seychelles founding President, who is expected back in Seychelles on January 21 and who has considerable cruising experiences to various parts of the world behind him, said that Celebrity Cruises are extremely well organized and represent great value for the money. โ€œSeychelles tourism will greatly benefit from Celebrityโ€™ world-wide marketing position,โ€ he said.

Seychelles is a founding member of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP).

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