Solidifying Dubai’s destination as a significant maritime tourism hub, Emirates and AIDA Cruises have actually renewed their particular partnership for a further two seasons.
The restored partnership was signed in the sidelines for the first-day of ITB Berlin and is in accordance with Dubai’s efforts to significant grow its cruise ability. Dubai continues to entice the biggest people in the industry through supplying a seamlessly incorporated maritime hub, with state-of-the-art dealing with facilities supported with unrivalled environment connectivity.
Emirates will explore several possibilities with AIDA Cruises for joint marketing and advertising, operational alignment and strategic preparation around flight schedules from across its community, as well as improved transport solutions between Dubai International Airport and Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal.
The cooperation continues to target revealing appropriate information and ideas to boost solution delivery, providing dedicated assistance teams for cruise passengers, and facilitating a smooth check-in procedure at Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal. The flight will commit convenience of another two months assure continued momentum to satisfy the need for cruise plans to Dubai.
The MoU was finalized by Adnan Kazim, Deputy President and Chief Commercial Officer, Emirates Airline; and Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA Cruises.
Adnan Kazim commented on the renewed cooperation: “We’re happy with AIDA Cruises’ long-standing dedication to Dubai, when they had been one of the primary cruise liners to house port in 2006. We’re readying the business for the next powerful cruise period in Dubai, and through the assistance of partners like AIDA Cruises anchoring within our house town and hub, we’ll continue to enhance Dubai’s position as a nice-looking portal for winter season cruising.”
“The Arabian Gulf is regarded as our most well known winter season destinations because of its reasonable journey times, pleasant summer temperatures and lots of hours of sunshine. Combined with the brand-new state-of-the-art terminals at Dubai Harbour within effortless reach of town’s attractions and exemplary airport connectivity, our cooperation with Emirates will more boost the attractiveness for this destination for our friends with tailor-made journey options,” said Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA Cruises.
AIDAprima has been running to Dubai Harbour since 2021 and may accommodate to 3,200 guests. In 2010, passengers embarking and disembarking from Dubai can look ahead to diverse itineraries including destinations like Muscat, Doha, Sir Bani Yas and Abu Dhabi.
Dubai was an initial mover in joining up the whole vacation and tourism ecosystem to facilitate hassle-free entry and visas for cruise guests, seamless control at ports which include usage of Emirates check-in desks at Dubai Harbour and many other amenities dotted over the entire air and ground journey. Travellers have the added advantage of disembarking at among world’s many iconic tourism destinations, with landmarks and destinations that fit every taste, age and spending plan.
The 12 Emirates check-in counters in Dubai Harbour allow individuals who will be disembarking from their particular cruise lines to totally check-in as much as 4 hours before flight departure with all the ease of checking out Dubai without their particular baggage before going straight to the airport and breezing past many formalities before their particular flight.
A year ago, Emirates transported around 400,000 cruise individuals making use of Dubai cruise terminals. The city welcomed over 166 boats during the last cruise period, making it the region’s biggest slot of embarkation & most popular call for cruise liners. The city wants an increase of 23per cent more cruise individuals for upcoming period.
