The partnerships will proceed to deal with sharing related knowledge and insights to enhance service supply, offering devoted help groups for cruise passengers, and facilitating a clean check-in course of at Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal.
BERLIN / DUBAI: Solidifying Dubai’s place as a serious maritime tourism hub, Emirates and AIDA Cruises have renewed their partnership for an extra two seasons. The renewed partnership was signed on the sidelines of the primary day of ITB Berlin and is consistent with Dubai’s efforts to important develop its cruise capability. Dubai continues to draw the largest gamers within the trade via providing a seamlessly built-in maritime hub, with state-of-the-art dealing with amenities supported with unrivalled air connectivity.
Emirates will discover a lot of alternatives with AIDA Cruises for joint advertising and marketing, operational alignment and strategic planning round flight schedules from throughout its community, along with enhanced transportation options between Dubai Worldwide Airport and Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal.
The partnership will proceed to deal with sharing related knowledge and insights to enhance service supply, offering devoted help groups for cruise passengers, and facilitating a clean check-in course of at Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal. The airline may also dedicate capability for the subsequent two seasons to make sure continued momentum to fulfill the demand for cruise packages to Dubai.
The MoU was signed by Adnan Kazim, Deputy President and Chief Business Officer, Emirates Airline; and Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA Cruises.
Adnan Kazim commented on the renewed partnership: “We’re happy with AIDA Cruises’ long-standing dedication to Dubai, once they had been one of many first cruise liners to dwelling port in 2006. We’re readying the enterprise for one more strong cruise season in Dubai, and thru the help of companions like AIDA Cruises anchoring in our dwelling metropolis and hub, we’ll proceed to strengthen Dubai’s place as a horny gateway for winter cruising.”
“The Arabian Gulf is considered one of our hottest winter locations as a result of its reasonable flight instances, nice summer time temperatures and plenty of hours of sunshine. Mixed with the brand new state-of-the-art terminals at Dubai Harbour inside simple attain of town’s sights and wonderful airport connectivity, our cooperation with Emirates will additional improve the attractiveness of this vacation spot for our visitors with tailored flight choices,” stated Felix Eichhorn.
AIDAprima has been working to Dubai Harbour since 2021 and might accommodate as much as 3,200 passengers. This season, passengers embarking and disembarking from Dubai can stay up for numerous itineraries that embrace locations like Muscat, Doha, Sir Bani Yas and Abu Dhabi.
Dubai has been a primary mover in becoming a member of up your complete journey and tourism ecosystem to facilitate hassle-free entry and visas for cruise passengers, seamless dealing with at ports which incorporates entry to Emirates check-in desks at Dubai Harbour together with a number of different facilities dotted throughout your complete air and floor journey. Travellers have the added benefit of disembarking at one of many world’s most iconic tourism locations, with landmarks and sights that swimsuit each style, age and finances.
The 12 Emirates check-in counters in Dubai Harbour enable passengers who’re disembarking from their cruise ships to totally check-in as much as 4 hours earlier than flight departure with the comfort of exploring Dubai with out their baggage earlier than heading on to the airport and breezing previous most formalities earlier than their flight.
Final 12 months, Emirates transported round 400,000 cruise passengers utilizing Dubai cruise terminals. Town welcomed over 166 ships over the last cruise season, making it the area’s greatest port of embarkation and hottest name for cruise liners. Town expects a rise of 23% extra cruise passengers for the upcoming season.
Emirates has additionally renewed its partnership with TUI Cruises for the upcoming two cruise seasons. The renewed partnership with TUI Cruises was signed on the sidelines of ITB Berlin and underscores the airline’s dedication to working with like-minded companions to supply seamless journey experiences, each within the air and on the bottom via its devoted cruise terminal check-in areas and with the collaborative help of its companions in Dubai.
Emirates will carefully work with TUI Cruises to supply devoted flight choices that carefully align with upcoming cruise schedules, making certain a clean transition from air to sea for its clients. The airline may also discover enhanced transportation options between Dubai Worldwide (DXB) and Port Rashid, leverage insights to enhance providers on the bottom, and supply devoted help groups for cruise passengers. At present, the port’s Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal, the world’s largest single coated cruise terminal facility, is able to dealing with 14,000 passengers a day.
Along with coordinated operations and exploring advertising and marketing synergies, the partnership will deal with creating unique luxurious packages and experiences that showcase one of the best of Dubai and the area’s TUI Cruise programmes.
Left to proper: Katharina Rinne, Director Income Administration & Pricing, TUI Cruises; Volker Greiner, Emirates Vice President North & Central Europe; Thierry Aucoc, Emirates Senior Vice President Business Operations Europe; Wybcke Meier, CEO TUI Cruises; Adnan Kazim, Emirates Deputy President und Chief Business Officer; Dina N A Al Herais, Emirates Vice President Company and Leisure – World Gross sales.
The MoU with TUI Cruises was signed by Adnan Kazim, Deputy President and Chief Business Officer, Emirates Airline; and Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI Cruises.
Adnan Kazim stated: “Emirates is proud to play a significant function in supporting Dubai’s standing as one of many world’s finest cruise locations. It is a results of a few years of labor to construct a maritime infrastructure that’s second to none, excellent vacationer sights and landmarks, and unparalleled air connectivity coupled with streamlined on floor customs and dealing with amenities for inbound cruise vacationers. All of those elements have made Dubai a key gateway for a number of the most sought-after cruise itineraries. Our settlement with TUI Cruises goals to proceed our efforts to spice up cruise passenger arrivals from throughout our community, to allow them to expertise one of the best in sea journey aboard TUI’s magnificent ships.”
“For greater than ten years, we have now been calling at Dubai with the Mein Schiff fleet to offer our visitors the chance to find the world of the Orient with us. Dubai isn’t solely an vital turnaround port, the vacation spot and the area supply what Mein Schiff visitors need: a mixture of metropolises which are always evolving, fantastic seashores and particular insights into the tradition. With Emirates, we’re working efficiently with an airline that provides our visitors this trip feeling proper from the beginning.” stated Wybcke Meier.
The expansion of cruise liner arrivals in Dubai represents the collective efforts of companions throughout the journey and aviation ecosystem working collectively for a seamless expertise. This contains hassle-free customs and entry procedures and seamless visa amenities for cruise ship passengers, duty-free shops and outlets, tour-operator desks and complimentary shuttle bus providers to town along with Emirates’ personal distant check-in desks at Port Rashid.
The 16 Emirates check-in counters enable passengers who’re disembarking from their cruise ships to examine of their baggage and get their boarding passes as much as 4 hours earlier than flight departure with the comfort of exploring Dubai with out their luggage earlier than heading on to the airport for his or her flight.
TUI Cruises will deploy two ships for the upcoming season to Port Rashid. Every ship can accommodate greater than 2,500 passengers. Prospects have the selection of two programmes, one with embarkation and disembarkation in Dubai, that includes GCC locations like Abu Dhabi, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The opposite itinerary contains Asian factors corresponding to Singapore and Hong Kong.
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