Carnival wins big in this year awards

[marty30907]

The nest time someone puts down Carnival, you can say they win allot of awards. This is from Carnival's website:

 

Carnival Cruise Lines Honored With Record Number of Awards01/16/2008 MIAMI (January 16, 2008) — Carnival Cruise Lines, the world’s largest cruise operator, raked in a record number of awards during the past year, capping off the final weeks of 2007 with several additional accolades from a variety of esteemed organizations.

Readers of Ocean & Cruise News - the publication of the World Cruise & Ocean Liner Society, an organization comprised of highly experienced cruise enthusiasts -- named Carnival “Best Cruise Value” in the superior four star category for the 14th consecutive year. The line also took home top honors in the “Short Cruise” category.

 

During the ninth annual Reader’s Choice Awards conducted by Travel Weekly magazine, Carnival was named “Best Domestic Cruise Line,” while the 88,500-ton Carnival Spirit was named “Best Overall Individual Ship.” Also, for the third consecutive year, Carnival’s business development managers were recognized for providing the cruise industry’s “Best Sales and Service.”

 

Carnival also received the prestigious “Best Cruise Line” honor from highly popular Southern Living Magazine, within that publication’s 2008 Readers Choice Awards.

Carnival’s incentive programs were recognized by the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives (SITE), receiving one of the organization’s “Most Outstanding Travel Reward Program” awards.

 

Among a wide variety of other accolades received throughout the year, Carnival was honored with nine Readers Choice Awards from Porthole magazine, including “Best Children’s Program,” “Best Entertainment” and “Most Value-for-the-Money.”

Meanwhile, Carnival Senior Cruise Director John Heald was named “Sea Going Employee of the Year” by Seatrade Insider.

 

Carnival was also honored by readers of TravelAge West magazine during the magazine’s annual WAVE (Western Agents Votes of Excellence) Awards, which named Kirk Neal, Carnival Cruise Lines’ business development director for the Sacramento region, “Favorite Individual Cruise Line Sales Representative,” while Harry’s Supper Club aboard the 110,000-ton Carnival Liberty was named “Best Alternative Dining Facility.”

Cruise One/Cruises Inc. named Carnival “Most Improved Cruise Line” for its efforts to continue to offer its guests an exciting, value-packed vacation experience and particularly for recent initiatives such as the new $250 million “Evolutions of Fun” ship refurbishment program for its Fantasy-class vessels, currently completed on the Carnival Inspiration and Carnival Imagination.

 

Also, Carnival Cruise Lines’ parent company, Carnival Corporation & plc, was honored at the recent World Travel Awards with the “Leading Cruise Brand” designation for 2007, as voted by travel agents in more than 190 countries around the world.

“Carnival strives to exceed guests’ expectations in all areas of the cruising experience - from our relationship with the travel agent community to our onboard services and programs - and receiving these various recognitions is truly gratifying,” said Vicki Freed, Carnival senior vice president of sales and guest services.

[dommer573]

Nice;)

[abitaturbodog]

Yeah for Carnival! It's nice that they're getting some of the respect that they deserve!

[goingagain]

do the carnival faithfull get a reward ?

 

Maybe a free Thank you sailing! :D

[stlrboo]

do the carnival faithfull get a reward ?

 

Maybe a free Thank you sailing! :D

Probably not... I'll keep hoping tho'..!!!:rolleyes: :p

 

If the article is from the Carnival website, it is probably very biased toward Carnival, and very 'forward thinking' as in something a broker would submit to a proposed buyer of CCL stock...!:rolleyes:

 

I'd be willing to bet that RCI has a very similar 'quotation' on their website! Looks good tho'.. I'll keep my stock!:D

[JoshGrrrr]

I don't put a lot of faith in awards. Brokeback Mountain won a lot of awards and I didn't really care for it. Fergie has won numerous awards as well, and I can't stand her or her music.

[gr1634]

Glad for Carnival. We will be on our 11th Carnival cruise in April - but how does that stack up against having an "F" on the BBB site??

[deborahjo]

Good for Carnival. I know I am cruising the right cruise line for a reason.

[RatherBFishin]

Glad for Carnival. We will be on our 11th Carnival cruise in April - but how does that stack up against having an "F" on the BBB site??

 

They have an F with Better Business Bureau because they are not a member (and refuse to become one). So no BBB complaint against them ever gets answered. There are alot of companies that either get an "F" or "No Rating" because of that.