At 16:30, January 23, Victoria Cruise under Victoria Cruise slowly moored in the Phase III dock of Nansha Port, Guangzhou. This marks the official settlement of Costa Cruise in Nansha Port, and opening of the homeport line of Guangzhou. More than 1,200 tourists boarded Victoria Cruise and started the maiden Guangzhou-Hong Kong trip, which lasts three days and two nights.

 

Costa Cruise is a brand under the world’s largest cruise ship company Carnival Corporation &Plc. The line starting from Nansha Port opened by Victoria Cruise, including the itinerary Guangzhou-Naha/Okinawa-Yaeyama Islands-Guangzhou which lasts six days and five nights, itinerary Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Guangzhou which lasts three days and two nights, and itinerary Guangzhou-Da Nang-Nha Trang-Guangzhou which lasts six days and five nights, will diversify the choices of Spring Festival vocation of passengers in South China.

 

It is no longer something new to “see the world” by taking the cruise ship from Guangzhou. According to Chen Wanxiong, deputy general manager of Guangzhou Port Group, Nansha Cruise Homeport operated 104 cruise ships and received 162,900 tourists in total in 2016. Nansha Port has officially become an important engine boosting the homeport cruise ship tourism of South China and cruise ship tourism has also become a new economic growth point of the tourist market of South China.

 

Source: Translated from Invest Guangzhou, January 24, 2017