Cruise companies with small and medium length ships visit the Balearic and ports on a fam trip

Cruise companies with small and medium length ships visit the Balearic and ports on a fam trip

Palma de Mallorca

14/09/2012

The APB has organized, in coordination with the Spanish Tourist Office in Miami, a familiarization trip (fam trip) of the Balearic Islands in order to expose them as tourist destinations to the major, internationally known cruise lines of small and median length ships. Representatives from a total of three cruise companies will visit the islands this week and make contacts with different institutions concerned with tourism.

Collaborating with the organization of this fam trip are the Tourism Agency of the Balearic Islands (ATB), the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Balearic Islands, the Council of Formentera, the municipal governments of Palma, Alcudia, Mahon and Ibiza, the Fundació Destí Menorca, the Palma 365 Foundation and other companies active in this sector of the industry.

 Besides getting to know the port facilities and projects that APB has launched to boost cruise traffic in each of its ports, the delegation will make trips to the different islands. Thus, representatives of Paul Gauguin Cruises, Crystal Cruises and Silversea Cruises will visit the ports of Alcudia and Palma and the island of Majorca on the 17th and 20th of September, the port and the island of Ibiza on the 18th, the port of La Savina and the island of Formentera on the 19th, and finally conclude their tour with a visit to the port of Mahon and Minorca on the 21st.

This initiative is in response to the permanent contact the APB maintains as a promoter of the Balearic Islands as an international tourist destination for cruise ships. In fact, the plan for this expedition was finalized at the latest edition of the Cruise Shipping Miami Convention, the international fair of the world´s largest cruise companies, which is celebrated in this American city every March.

Companies from the tourism sector which took part in this initiative were: Intercruises, Iberoservice, BC Tours, Baleària, Trasmapi, Meliá Hotels, Hotel Ushuaia Beach, Grupo Pacha, Cova d´en Xoroi, Son Martorellet, Cipriani restaurants, Nàutic and BLD de es Baluard, the Fort of San Felipe in es Castell and the Majorca Cathedral.