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 island’s founding President, Sir James R.
Mancham by Mr Bernt Reitan, a former Chief Executive Officer of the
American Aluminum Corporation and who is at the moment a member of
the Board of Directors of Royal
Caribbean Cruises and quartered in Miami, Florida
with which celebrity cruises is commercially associated.
Mr
Mancham met Mr Reitan at the official dinner hosted on Monday 14th
January by Captain Costas Nestoroudis, Master of Celebrity Solstice
which is one of the most modern and beautiful cruise
shipafloat today.
The
founding President and his wife Catherine boarded
the Celebrity Solstice in Auckland, New
Zealand on the 4th of January 2013 on a 14-day cruise
which terminated in Sydney
Australia on the 16th of January following visits to
Tauranga, Akaroa, Wellington, Dunedine, Milford, Doubtful Dusky
Sounds in New Zealand and Hobart in Tasmania.
The
122 000 tons Celebrity Solstice carries some 3000
passengers + a crew of 1,200 officers, staff and service personnel.
In
a statement issued in Sydney on the 16th January, the Seychelles
founding President who is expected back in Seychelles on 21st January
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 money. “Seychelles
tourism will greatly benefit from celebrities world-wide
marketing position” he said.
