Carnival targets 50% of Asian market in 2017

[Iluvcruising2]

Looks like Carnival is coming to Asia in a big way, with the setting up of a regional office in Singapore.

 

Quoting from -

http://ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=20930

 

Pier Luigi Foschi, Carnival Asia chairman and CEO, told TTG Asia e-Daily in an interview this morning: “We would like our share of Asia to be the same as our share of the market worldwide, which is 50 per cent.”

 

Other articles:

 

http://www.traveldailymedia.com/153225/carnival-opens-singapore-office

 

http://www.seatrade-insider.com/news/news-headlines/carnival-opens-regional-office-in-singapore.html

 

Looks like there will be many cruise options for Singapore and the South-East Asian region soon.

 

Come visit us!:):)

[Iluvcruising2]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/carnival-cruise-group/633086.html

 

More news.

[Frank12]

Give them the Triumph! :D

[Iluvcruising2]

Give them the Triumph! :D

 

Yeah, not a bad idea.

 

The cruise industry is still relatively undeveloped here, not many people would know.

[Jenna1983]

Not surprising. A lot of American companies are targeting places like Asia/South America for business expansion outside of North America hard in the next 10 years because that's where the emerging markets are.

[seannyice81]

Give them the Triumph! :D

 

THIS

 

or instead of selling the Fantasy, move it to China (like the Holiday and Celebration to Spain/Portugal).

[skyeman27]

Give them the Triumph! :D

 

Does the Triumph have the Mongolian Wok?

[lithlith]

We cruised from Singapore to Beijing in March 2012 on the Diamond Princess for a 17 day cruise.

 

Ports:

Singapore,

Bangkok Thailand,

Phu My Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City),

Nha Trang Vietnam,

Hong Kong,

Shanghai China,

Nagasaki Japan,

Busan South Korea,

Tianjin China (Beijing)

 

Pros:

-Great way to see numerous countries throughout Asia in a short period of time.

-Safety and security of having clean/safe water and food on the cruise ship and nice accommodations.

-We enjoyed having a day at a port and then a day at sea, then a day at a port and then a day at sea. It was nice to rest up after long days/bus rides for excursions.

 

Cons:

-Your time is extremely limited to pretty much a day or two in each country.

-Large cruise ships (such as the Diamond Princess like we were on) dock at container ports where you can't just get off the boat and wander around at shops because there aren't any or for the safety/security of the container port. Also, these container ports are often far outside the cities, and you might not even be able to see the city from where you are docked.

-You're pretty much stuck doing cruise ship excursions due to the distance you are from the major cities and sights you likely want to see. Also, since the cruise industry is not huge in Asia there aren't as many independent operators.

-There is a huge language barrier when you get off the ship. We were expecting this, but not nearly to the extent that we experienced.

 

We took the standard city tour excursions offered by Princess for most of the ports, which were 8-10 hour tours four around $100-$130pp, that took you to the major tourist sights at each port (obviously this adds up quickly for a couple of a family doing such an excursion at each port). If you are not up for tours like this at each port, then don't bother going, you won't see much of anything besides containers if you stay aboard the ship. You can expect at least a hour bus ride just to get from the port to city and then same coming back for ports like Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Shanghai. And for the final stop, Tianjin China is 1-2 hours away of Beijing via car/bus. The only port we went where we could walk off the ship and be in the city was Nagasaki, Japan.

 

Overall, we loved the cruise, but we also knew what we were getting into from reading Cruise Critic and other blog sites. There were many people aboard our ship who were upset that we were were docking at container ports and that the docks were hours outside of the cities. Always do your research no matter where you are going.

[Haoie]

This is the sort of thing my folks would enjoy, Asian cruises.

 

If I'm not mistaken, the main local competitor is Star Lines [co-owner of NCL].

 

I also understand cruising from those markets is quite different, very casino and smoking oriented? That's something my parents wouldn't enjoy at all.