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Seabourn cruises was Founded in 1987 by Norwegian industrialist Atle Brynstead, who wanted to create nothing less than a totally new concept of cruising with absolute dedication to the highest level of personal service found in top-of-the-line hotels and restaurants on land. In March 1998, Carnival Corporation and a group of Norwegian investors acquired Cunard Line and merged it with Seabourn Cruise Line with the goal of retaining the two lines as separate brands. While Seabourn currently still shares services with Cunard where cost efficiencies dictate,Seabourn Cruise Line now operates as an independent unit of Carnival Corporation with its own executive team responsible for the line’s initiatives and results.

SHIPS:
Seabourn Spirit 208 p Bahamas Registry

Seabourn Legend 208 p Bahamas Registry

Seabourn Pride 208 p Bahamas Registry

ADDRESSES:
6100 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 400
Miami, Florida 33126
US Tel: 1-800-929-9391
1-305-463-3000
Fax: 1-305-463-3070

UK Contact :

UK Tel: 0845-070-0500
0800-052-3841 (For Europe, Middle East, Africa)

Carnival Cruise Lines has been operating for more than a quarter of a century and was instrumental in the changes that have incurred in the cruise industry. The company was founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, a Florida-based businessman who wanted to make a vacation experience available for the average person. Together with a Boston travel agency, they bought the TSS Mardi Gras (the former Empress of Canada) and launched her when on her maiden voyage, she promptly ran aground. Eventually Arison took over the debt-ridden company, assumed its multimillion debt, bought The Empress of Britain for a pittance (renamed her the TSS Carnivale), and created the “fun ship’’ logo-moves, which boosted sales and turned a profit in Arison’s first year as sole owner.

Over the next two decades, the company added more ships and introduced trend-setting superliners-Celebration, Holiday and Jubilee. In 1990, the first of the six new Fantasy class vessels, the 70,367-ton Fantasy, made her debut By 1996, with six Fantasy-Class ships added to the fleet, the company introduced the first Destiny Class passenger vessel to exceed 100,00 tons, the Carnival Destiny, which at the time became the world’s largest cruise ship. By 2002, the company had added two more Fantasy-Class vessels and two more Destiny-Class ships.

In 2001, the first of the new Spirit Class vessels, the Carnival Spirit made her debut. By spring 2004, three more Spirit-Class vessels were launched.

In 2002, Carnival introduced the Conquest Class with its largest ship to date, Carnival Conquest, at 110,000 gross and passenger capacity at 2,974. A year later Carnival Glory made its debut. By spring of 2005, two more Conquest-class ships will have been added: Carnival Valor and Cardinal Liberty. Both the Spirit and Conquest class of ship are not able to transport the Panama Canal.

Along the way, cruise lines were added and Ted Arison’s son Micky Arison came on board working his way up to president of Carnival in 1979. In 1990 he was appointed chairman of the line. When the parent company, Carnival Corporation, was formed in 1994, Arison assumed the chairmanship.) Micky Arison engineered the acquisition in 1989 of Holland American Line and Windstar Cruises, and partial ownership in Seabourn Cruise Line in 1992; four years later Carnival owned 50 percent of the company.

In 1997, Carnival bought part ownership in Airtours, a European tour company, and together the companies bought Costa Cruises. The following year Carnival acquired a majority interest in Cunard from the line’s parent company Kvaerner ASA and purchased the remaining shares in fall 1998. In 2000, Carnival bought out Airtours’ shares of Costa and took 100 percent ownership of the Italian line. On April 17, 2003, agreements were finalized to combine Carnival Corporation with P & O Princess Cruises plc, creating a dually merged company.

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise - vacation group in the world, with a portfolio of 12 cruise brands in North America, Europe and Australia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line, Windstar Cruises, AIDA, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, Swan Hellenic, and P&O Cruises Australia. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates the leading tour companies in Alaskan and the Canadian Yukon, Holland America Tours and Princess Tours.

SHIPS:
Holiday Class (three ships):

Holiday 1,452 p Bahamas Registry
Jubilee, 1,486 p Bahamas Registry
Celebration 1,486 p Panama Registry

Fantasy Class (eight ships):

Fantasy 2,056 p Panama Registry
Ecstasy, 2,052 p Panama Registry
Sensation 2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Fascination 2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Imagination 2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Inspiration 2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Elation 2,052 p Panama Registry
Paradise 2,052 p Panama Registry

Destiny Class (3 ships)

Carnival Destiny 2,642 p; Bahamas Registry
Carnival Triumph 2,758 p Bahamas Registry
Carnival Victory 2,758 p Panama Registry

Spirit Class (4 ships):

Carnival Spirit 2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Pride - 2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Legend 2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Miracle 2,974 p Panama Registry

Conquest Class:

Carnival Conquest 2,976 p Panama Registry
Carnival Glory 1,976 p Panama Registry

Address:
3655 N.W. 87 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33178
Tel: 1-305-599-2600
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
1-800-CARNIVAL
Fax: 1-305-599-8630

Star Cruises, the major cruise line in Asia-Pacific was incorporated in September 1993, representing a bold initiative to tap Asia-Pacific's potential as an international cruise destination. Following the acquisition of NCL Holdings (NCL Holdings includes NCL, NCL America, and Orient Lines.) in early 2000, Star Cruises is now the third largest cruise line in the world presently operating a combined fleet of 18 ships with over 23,000 lower berths. Star Cruises operates cruises on eight ships in the Asia-Pacific region with Singapore, Port Klang (Malaysia), Hong Kong and Keelung as ports of embarkation.

SHIPS:
SuperStar Aries 678 p Bahamas Registry

Star Pisces 2000 p Panama Registry

SuperStar Leo 1,960 p Panama Registry

SuperStar Gemini 788 p Panama Registry

SuperStar Virgo 1,960 p Panama Registry

SuperStar Aries 678 p Bahamas Registry

SuperStar Capricorn 870 p Panama Registry

Norwegian Star I 870 p Bahamas Registry

MegaStar Taurus 64 p Panama Registry

MegaStar Aries 72 p Panama Registry

Wasa Queen 866 p Panama Registry (Wasa Queen is a cruise ferry operating in Singapore and international waters.)

ADDRESSES:

1 Shenton Way 01-02
Singapore 068803
Tel: 65-226-1168
Fax: 65-220-6993

US Office address:

Norwegian Cruise Line
7665 Corporate Center Drive
Miami, Florida 33126
Tel: 1-800-327-7030
Tel: (1) 305 436 4694
Fax: (1) 305 436 4112

Launched in March 2002, Island Cruises is a joint venture between First Choice Holidays PLC in the UK and Royal Caribbean International. The current ship, the Island Escape, formerly sailed as the Viking Serenade for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and now spends the summer months in Palma, Majorca from where she cruises the Mediterranean's most popular cities. During the winter months, Santos, Brazil is her homeport from which the vessel offers cruises to UK and Brazilian passengers along Brazil’s Atlantic coast.

SHIP:
Island Escape 1,504 person - Bahamas Registry

Addresses:
Olivier House
18 Marine Road
Brighton
BN2 1TL UK
Reservations: 08707 500414 (UK)

Brazil Office:
Tel: 55 (11) 3156-5600
Fax: 55 (11) 3156-5610

Ocean Village Holidays offers informal cruises to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. The company launched its ship 'Ocean Village' in April 2003.The cruises combine action and relaxation at sea and ashore into a fresh new take on holidays. For thirty-to-fifty-somethings with modern active.Ocean Village Holidays is a unit of Carnival & plc.

SHIP:
Ocean Village 1,578 p UK Registry

Address:
Richmond Terrace
Southampton,
SO14 3PN
UK
Reservations: 0845 358 5000
Tel: 44-23-8053-4200
Fax: 44-23-8053-4682

In 1997, decades after the demise of passenger cruising on the Great Lakes, German cruise line Hapag-Lloyd brought their 420-passenger cruise ship MV Columbus, filled primarily with German travelers, to sail the Great Lakes. Fascinated by the idea of revitalizing this once flourishing cruise market, travel industry veterans Tom Conlin and his son Chris, formed the Great Lakes Cruise Company the following year. By fall 1999, the Great Lakes Cruise Company operated the first American charter of the MV Columbus. With the success of their first season, GLCC chartered both MV Columbus and the 90-passenger French luxury yacht Le Levant the following three years.

In 2002, to facilitate the revitalization process and attract more travelers to our beautiful inland oceans, GLCC formed a partnership with Acheson Ventures of Port Huron, Michigan, just as Acheson was completing construction of the finest new cruise ship terminal in the Great Lakes. As more cruise lines entered the Great Lakes market, GLCC expanded their services, forming a single source for Great Lakes cruises.

The Great Lakes Cruise Company currently features not only their own charters, but also offers cruises aboard all ships now sailing the Great Lakes.

Ships:
Le Levant* 95 p Wallus and Fortuna/FR

Columbus* 408 p Bahamas Registry

Georgian Clipper* 18 p Canada Registry

* Chartered

Addresses:

3300 Washtenaw Avenue
Suite 230
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Tel: 1-888-891-0203
1-734-677-3128
Fax: 1-734-477-6032

UK Office address:

Discovery Cruises UK Ltd

15 Young Street
Kensington,
London, England W85 5EH,
Tel: +44 7795 4900
Fax: +44 207 7795 4910

Cruceros Australis was founded in 1990 to for cruises in the Chilean-Argentinian Patagonia. The company operates the Mare Australis, an expedition ship which offers expeditionary cruises to remote areas in Southern Patagonia, Beagle Chanel and Cape Horn. A second ship, Via Australis, will debut in November 2005.

Ship:
MV Mare Australis 129 p Chile Registry

Addresses:

4014 Chase Avenue
Suite 202
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Tel. 305-695-9618
Toll Free: 877-678-3772
Fax: 305-534-9276

Chile Address:
Av. El Bosque Norte 0440
Piso 1
Santiago, Chile
Tel. 562-442-3110
Fax. 562-203-5173

Clipper Cruise Line was founded in 1982 by St. Louis-businessman Barney Ebsworth. The line then was acquired by INTRAV, a St. Louis, Missouri- based travel operator of deluxe international tours and air/sea packages. Two years later, INTRAV and Clipper were acquired by Kuoni, a Swiss tour company. Clipper today offers a wide array of international and domestic light-adventure voyages aboard its four small ships.

Cruises :

M/S Clipper Adventurer 122 p Bahamas Registry

Clipper Odyssey 128 p Bahamas Registry

Nantucket Clipper 100 p US Registry

Yorktown Clipper 138 p US Registry

Address:
11969 Westline Industrial Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63146-3220
Tel: 1-314-655-6700
1-800-325-10
1-800-325-11
Fax: 1-314-727-6576

Windjammer has been offering laidback cruising in the Caribbean and off Central America for more than 50 years.

SHIPS:
SV Legacy 122 p Equatorial Guinea Registry

SV Polynesia 122 p Equatorial Guinea Registry

SV Mandalay 72 p Equatorial Guinea Registry

SV Yankee Clipper 64 p Equatorial Guinea Registry

MV Amazing Grace 92 p Trinidad Registry (Amazing Grace, a supply vessel for the Windjammer sailing ships, operates cruises between Trinidad and Grand Bahama Island.)

ADDRESS:

1759 Bay Road
Miami Beach, Florida 33119-0120
Tel: 1-800-327-2601
1-305-672-6453
Fax: 1-305-674-1219

Travel Dynamics, formerly known as Classical Cruises, was founded more than three decades ago and offers educational and cultural cruises to various parts of the world. It offers a unique rewards program called the Odysseus Circle, which requires no registration fee. Any traveler on trips operated by Travel Dynamics International since January 1, 2004 is eligible for this rewards program, and only needs to call Travel Dynamics in order to register for it. Travelers earn nautical miles based upon the exact number of miles cruised on a travel program and can then redeem these miles for discounts on their next Travel Dynamics trip.

SHIPS:

Callisto 34 p Greece Registry

Corinthian II 114 p Malta Registry

Orion 106 p Bahamas Registry

ADDRESS:

132 East 70 Street
New York, New York 10021
Tel: 1-212-517-7555
1-800-257-5767
Fax: 1-203-655-6623
Fax: 1-212-774-1545

The Greek line offers cruising in and around the Greek Isles.

Golden Star Cruises ship:
Aegean I 560 p Greece Registry

Addresses:
85 Akti Miaouli,
Piraeus,
Greece 185 38
Tel. +3 (210) 429-0650
Fax +3 (210) 429-0660

US Office address:

Golden Sun Cruises

40 East 52nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10022-5911
Tel: 212-223-3222
Toll free (877) 244-8004

P&O’s beginnings go back to the 1837 when as the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company began passenger conveyance. Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray made a "Mediterranean cruise" -- a Grand Tour by sea aboard a series of P&O ships in 1844, and published his enthusiastic memoirs in "Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo." The company to this day has remained a British-based shipping line and in its heyday served the British Empire.

In the 1880s the Orient Line and the North of Scotland company, both later to be taken over by P&O, pioneered modern-style cruises, and in 1904 P&O offered its first program: First Class only with shore excursions arranged by Thomas Cook, using the 23-year-old liner Rome, renamed Vectis in her new role as a "cruising yacht." Between the wars cruising became more popular, often using the newest ships in the fleet rather than the oldest. Tourist class cruises began in the early 1930s and Pacific cruises from Australia a few years later. In 1960, the company merged with the Orient Line to form P&O-Orient Lines

P&O's last ship built for scheduled line voyages, Canberra, was delivered in 1961, but by the 1970s, jet airlines had taken over the company's traditional passenger trades while the container ship packed up liner cargoes. Forced to concentrate on the leisure side of sea travel, P&O abolished passenger classes, acquired Los Angeles-based Princess Cruises in 1974, and Sitmar Cruises in 1988. Sitmar cruises was then merged with Princess Cruises.

In 1999, P&O entered Continental Europe with the acquisition of a majority stake in AIDA, and the following year acquired the remainder of AIDA and Seetours, a company specializing in the German cruise and riverboat sector. That same year, the company demerged from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and became known as P&O Princess Cruises. In July 2001 A'ROSA, a new premium destination-oriented brand catering exclusively for German-speaking customers was launched. In 2003, P&O Princess Cruises plc merged with Carnival Corporation, to become Carnival & plc.

SHIPS:
Aurora 1,874 p UK Registry

Oriana 1,822 p UK Registry

Arcadia 1,475 p UK Registry

Oceana 1,950 p UK Registry

Adonia 2,010 UK Registry

Arcadia* 1,952 p UK Registry

Artemis* 1,203 p UK Registry

* Debuts 2005

ADDRESSES:
UK Home Office :
Richmond House
Terminus Terrace
Southampton
SO14 3PN UK
Reservations: 0845 3 555 333:
Fax: 023 8065-7030

US Office address:

7 Princess Tours
2815 Second Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle Washington 98121 - 1299
Tel. 1 206 728 4202
Tel. 1 206 727 3199
Fax. 1 206 336 6100