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Costa offers over 1,000 shorex in 2010
ROME – Costa Cruises has released its 2010 brochure in all the countries where it operates, except North America (coming soon).
Potential cruisers can take advantage of the company’s ‘ProntoPrice,’ introduced in 2005, with discounted rates available to early bookers.
Costa will be increasing its capacity in 2010 by 16 percent compared to this year, with approximately 250 destinations and over 100 different itineraries.
Destinations range from the Far East, with three ships operating during the year, to the Middle East with new ships Costa Luminosa and Costa Deliziosa out of Dubai, and the Indian Ocean, where Costa Romantica will be deployed for the first time.
New are summer cruises to Greenland on Costa Luminosa, Canada and the US and new ports of call in the Mediterranean on Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda, and in Monte Carlo, Capri, Libya and Israel.
More than 1,100 excursions appear in the 2010 brochure including 240 ecotourism offerings comprising visits to parks and nature reserves and tailor-made food and wine excursions, organised in restaurants listed in the 2009 Michelin Guide.
Costa carried approximately 1.2m passengers in 2008 and was, for the second year running, the only European cruise line to exceed one million cruisers annually.
The company’s objective is to carry 1.5m passengers in 2010.
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