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Greek Official Confirms Island Vaccination Plan Was About Economics

2021-05-30 by Phil Butler

Celestial Cruises

Greece now readily admit that the “Blue Freedom” island vaccination plan to help cruise companies. The sad thing is, nobody seems to care.

Tags: Blue Freedom, COVID-19 Greece, Cruise industry, cruise news, Dr. George Pavlakis, Greece 2021, Greece tourism, Greece vaccinations, Greek Islands, Harry Theoharis, Heraklion, Ioannis Plakiotakis, MSC Cruises, TUI, TUI Cruises

Are Big Tour Operators Sailing Crete to a Point of No Return?

2021-04-04 by Phil Butler

Heraklion shopping

TUI and Hapag-Lloyd intend on making Crete a new base of operations for late Spring and Summer 2021. But, is this a good thing, or bad?

Tags: Crete harbor, Crete tourism, cruise lines, cruise news, Hapag-Lloyd, Heraklion port, Mein Schiff 2, overtourism, ports, tours, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI Group, Venice cruises

TUI Presser Reveals Company Is Still Afloat – But Just Barely

2021-03-27 by Phil Butler

TUI Group logo

TUI continues to ply the choppy waters of Summer vacations bliss in 2021. Meanwhile, the company’s liquidity seems in question over COVID.

Tags: Dieter Zetsche, Greece vacations, Rupert Hargreaves, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI Group, TUI stocks, TUI UK, TUIFly

TUI’s Greece Bookings Skyrocket – Greeks Only Want Their Lives Back

2021-03-17 by Phil Butler

Moderna

With the pandemic still ravaging Greece’s citizens and the country’s economy, foreign business interests seem to be calling all the shots (pun intended).

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Greece 2021, Greece summer, Greek holiday, Harry Theoharis, Kara Godfrey, Kos Island, Kos Vacations, Noel Josephides, OKU Kos, Sunvil Group, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI Holidays, vaccine schedule

Royal Caribbean Seeks $1 Billion in Pandemic Damage Control Capital

2020-10-14 by Phil Butler

Royal Caribbean

In heavy financial seas because of the coronavirus pandemic, Royal Caribbean Group is on the hunt for $1 billion to stay afloat.

Tags: Cruise industry, cruise lines, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Royal Caribbean stocks, stocks, TUI, TUI Cruises

Ocean Rebellion Launches Protests Against Cruise Industry

2020-10-01 by Phil Butler

Ocean Rebellion

Ocean Rebellion just launched a night-time protest in Weymouth in order to reveal the “dirty truth of the cruise shipping industry”.

Tags: Carnival Cruise Lines, Cruise industry, cruise line pollution, cruise lines, cruise ships, Cunard, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Marella Cruises, Mein Schiff 6, Ocean Rebellion, P&O, pollution, TUI, TUI Cruises

Members of TUI’s Mein Schiff 6 Crew Test Positive for COVID-19

2020-09-29 by Phil Butler

TUI Cruises

Greek authorities say 12 crew members TUI Cruises’ Mein Schiff 6 carrying more than 1,500 passengers, have tested positive for COVID-19.

Tags: COVID at sea, COVID-19 Greece, COVID-19 test, crew, greece cruises, Greek Isles, Heraklion port, Mein Schiff 6, pandemic, TUI Cruises, TUI Group, TUI shios

TUI’s Mein Schiff 2 Sets Sail Into Wicked Public Relations Storm

2020-07-26 by Phil Butler

TUI Cruises' Mein Schiff

TUI, the world’s biggest tour company is back promoting cruises with a “business as usual” approach that has many concerned.

Tags: 2020 cruises, AIDA, Coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, cruise critics, cruise news, Marcus Puttich, Mein Schiff 1, Mein Schiff 2, TUI, TUI Cruises

TUI Pushing Hard for Early Tourism Invasion of Greece

2020-05-06 by Phil Butler

Mykonos

This week in Greece, citizens are emerging from a weeks long lockdown. Meanwhile, TUI and other big travel businesses push ahead hard.

Tags: Balearic Islands, Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, COVID-19, crete, Cyprus, Fritz Joussen, Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, portugal, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI profits, TUI stocks




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