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Cruise tourism posts 19% passenger growth in 2013

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | April 11, 2014 - 12:00am

The Department of Tourism (DOT) has reported a 19.35-percent increase in the number of tourists received in different parts of the country through cruise ships.

Business

Costa Cruises bullish on Phl market

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | January 12, 2014 - 12:00am

Cruise tourism is slowly gaining ground in the Philippines and is deemed to add “more fun” to the country’s tourism industry.

Travel and Tourism

Lisbon embassy succeeds in OAV efforts

November 25, 2012 - 12:00am

The Philippine Embassy in Lisbon reported that it successfully concluded its registration activities for the overseas absentee voting (OAV) for the 2013 midterm polls with a record number of almost 6,000 Filipino...

Travel and Tourism

Filipino cruise ship crew cited

October 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Filipino crew members of the Italian-based Costa Concordia cruise ship was recently accorded the Seafarer of the Year Award at the Lloyd’s List Global Awards 2012 in London for their exemplary display of skill...

The Good News

Death toll of Italy's Costa Concordia wreck rises to 30

March 23, 2012 - 9:31am

The death toll of Italian Costa Concordia wreck rose to 30 on Thursday after divers found five more bodies inside the cruise ship that stranded off the country's western coast in January, local media said.

Italian cruise ship death toll rises to 16

January 25, 2012 - 8:39am

The death toll of Italy's Costa Concordia wreck rose to 16 after a woman's body was found in the ship on Tuesday.

296 Pinoy crewmen on Italian cruise ship safe

By Pia Lee-Brago | January 17, 2012 - 12:00am

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported yesterday that all 296 Filipino crewmembers of the ill-fated M/V Costa Concordia are safe and awaiting repatriation after their cruise ship capsized off the coast...

Headlines

300 Pinoy crewmen on stricken Italian cruise ship

By Rainier Allan Ronda | January 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Three hundred Filipino crewmembers were aboard the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it ran aground and keeled over off the coast of Grosseto, Tuscany last Friday.

Headlines

Ship aground off Italy; 3 bodies found, 69 missing

January 15, 2012 - 2:07am

Divers searched the submerged part of a luxury cruise liner that went aground off Italy's coast in case any of 70 people unaccounted for might be trapped inside, a coast guard official said yesterday, as passengers...

Higher tourist arrivals expected with cruise ship's regular calls to Manila

December 14, 2009 - 12:00am

As much as 22,000 tourists are expected to visit Manila from now until Nov. 2010 as Costa Cruises, Italy’s largest tourism group and Europe’s number one cruise company, begins regular calls to Manil...

Business As Usual