MIAMI, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's
largest leisure travel company, continued its long history of
third-party recognitions for providing its over 12 million annual
guests with extraordinary vacation experiences, earning nearly 600
awards and honors in 2019 across its nine global cruise line brands
and leadership team.
Since 2016 Carnival Corporation and its cruise line brands have
received over 2,000 industry awards, and in 2019 the recognition
continued for consistently exceeding guest expectations as cruising
extends its popularity and reputation as the fastest growing
segment of the vacation sector.
The 2019 recognition for Carnival Corporation and its brands
includes 152 Cruise Critic awards, 23 USA Today 10Best Readers'
Choice Awards, 23 CruiseLine.com awards and 10 awards from Conde
Nast Traveler for being named best in the industry for cruise
ships, value, service, shore excursions, itineraries, family
friendliness, private islands, onboard entertainment and more.
A sample of 2019 awards includes:
- AIDA Cruises was named Germany's Most Trusted Cruise Line by Reader's
Digest, and received the Blue Angel ecolabel for excellence in
environmentally friendly ship design for its newest ship, AIDAnova,
the world's first cruise ship capable of being powered in port or
at sea by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the marine industry's most
advanced fuel technology.
- Carnival Cruise Line was certified as a Great Place
to Work™ based on employee surveys by the Great Place to Work
organization. Carnival Cruise Line was also named Best Domestic
Cruise Line for the fourth year in a row at the annual Travel
Weekly Readers' Choice Awards, in addition to Best Family
Experience and Best Travel Advisor Educational Program.
Additionally, Carnival Cruise Line earned several USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards,
including Best Ocean Cruise and Best Cruise Ship for
Families.
- Costa Cruises' innovative approaches to support
environmentally friendly operations were recognized at the Business
Performance Awards with the Sustainable Performance Award
highlighting 4GOODFOOD, the brand's food waste reduction program.
The 4GOODFOOD program was also recognized as a finalist of the
15th UNWTO Enterprise Award and earned the MedCruise
Award for Cruise Line with the Greatest Charity Program.
- Cunard earned the Porthole Cruise Magazine
Editor-in-Chief Award for Best Trans-Atlantic Experience, and was
also named Favorite Luxury/Premium Cruise Line in the 2019 World of
Cruising Wave Awards.
- Holland America Line was
named the top-rated Alaska Cruise Line for Large Ships by Cruise
Critic readers, and the brand's private island, Half Moon Cay,
was named as Best Private Island Destination by Porthole
Cruise Magazine readers for the 19th consecutive year.
Additionally, Holland America Line President Orlando Ashford received Seattle Business
Magazine's 2019 Executive Excellence Award, honoring senior
executives who have demonstrated extraordinary, consistent
leadership in guiding their organizations.
- P&O Cruises (Australia) was named the winner of Trusted
Cruise Operator by Reader's Digest Trusted Brands Australia, and
was honored with multiple Cruise Critic Australia Cruisers' Choice
Awards including Best Cruise for Families, Best Shore Excursions
for Mid-Sized Ships, Best for Fitness & Recreation for
Mid-Sized Ships and Best Nightlife.
- P&O Cruises (UK) earned several Travel Weekly Cool
Cruises Awards, including Best for Value, Best for World Cruises,
Best for Mediterranean and Best for Caribbean.
- Princess Cruises was named Best Cruise Line in
Alaska in the Travel Weekly
Readers' Choice Awards for the 13th consecutive year.
Additionally, Princess Cruises received the Wine Spectator 2019
Restaurant Award of Excellence after recently introducing a newly
reimagined wine menu. Princess Cruises also received its second
consecutive SHAPE Magazine Healthy Travel Award, recognizing the
brand's fleetwide and state-of-the-art Lotus Spa and Fitness
Centers.
- Seabourn was named one of TIME magazine's World's
Greatest Places to Stay, and as Best Cruise Line for Luxury Small
Ships in Luxury Travel Advisor's Awards of Excellence. The brand
also ranked at the top of U.S. News & World Report's Best
Cruise Lines list for Best Cruise Line in the Mediterranean.
Additionally, Seabourn was recognized as Best Small-Ship Ocean
Cruise Line in the Telegraph Travel Awards.
Additional notable honors in 2019 included Carnival
Corporation's recognition as one of 100 Best Corporate Citizens by
Corporate Responsibility Magazine (CR Magazine) for the fourth
consecutive year, and three separate recognitions by Forbes as one
of America's Best Employers for Diversity, Best Large Employers and
Best Employers for New Grads.
Carnival Corporation was also named among America's Most
Responsible Companies by Newsweek, Greenest Shipowner of the Year
Neptune Award by maritime industry peers, and received a perfect
score for the third consecutive year in the Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) Foundation's Corporate Equality Index and designation as a
Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
Several of Carnival Corporation's leaders were recognized as
major cruise industry agents of change, including 10 leaders named
to Travel Agent Central's list of The Most Innovative People in
Cruise Travel 2019. Carnival Corporation Chairman Micky Arison and CEO Arnold Donald were among South Florida Business
Journal's Top 250 Power Leaders for 2019. Donald was also named to
Florida Trend's annual list of
Florida's 500 most influential business leaders. In addition, Chief
Procurement Officer Julia Brown was
named among the Most Influential Women in Corporate America by
Savoy Magazine and one of this year's "Women to Watch" by Cranfield
University in the United
Kingdom.
"These awards are a strong testament to the success of our
collective efforts and the passion and dedication of our 150,000
employees around the world to provide the best vacation experiences
in the world at an extraordinary value," said Roger Frizzell, chief communications officer for
Carnival Corporation. "We are honored to be recognized with such a
remarkable collection of awards from consumers, the travel
industry, business organizations and most importantly our more than
12 million guests, which further inspires our passion for providing
great vacation experiences."
In addition to Carnival Corporation and its nine cruise line
brands taking home awards, the company's innovative OceanMedallion,
now available on five Princess Cruises ships, continued to receive
awards for being the world's first interactive guest experience
platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale into a
highly personalized level of service. During the course of the
year, the OceanMedallion was named a 2019 Edison Awards Finalist
and was awarded the IoT Breakthrough Award for IoT Wearables
Innovation of the Year, the Red Dot Award for Product Design and
the Skift Design Award for Best Cruise Experience.
A complete list of Carnival Corporation's 2019 awards and
recognitions can be found here.
About Carnival Corporation
& plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is the
world's largest leisure travel company and among the most
profitable and financially strong in the cruise and vacation
industries, with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise
lines. With operations in North America, Australia,
Europe and Asia, its
portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland
America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Together, the corporation's cruise lines
operate 105 ships with 254,000 lower berths
visiting over 700 ports around the world, with 16 new
ships scheduled to be delivered through 2025. Carnival
Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess
Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the
Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London
Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the
only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and
the FTSE 100 indices.
With a long history of innovation and providing guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences, Carnival Corporation has
received thousands of industry awards – including recognition by
the Consumer Technology Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation
Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A revolutionary wearable device
that contains a proprietary blend of communication technologies,
OceanMedallion enables the world's first interactive guest
experience platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale
into a highly personalized level of customized service. The
prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor outstanding design and
engineering in consumer technology products.
Additional information can be found
on www.carnival.com, www.princess.com,
www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com,
www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com,
and www.cunard.com.
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