What is the market share of the big players in the cruise line industry?
June 24, 2009 by Cruise Tips
Filed under Cruise Lines
Can you answer Adam K’s question about Cruises?:
I need to know the market share of the big players in the cruise line industry, so like carnival, Norwegian, star, etc. THANKS!
For example) Carnival 50%, Norwegian 25%, Star 25% - %= how many cruises sold
Discount Mediterranean Cruises
I need to know the market share of the big players in the cruise line industry, so like carnival, Norwegian, star, etc. THANKS!
For example) Carnival 50%, Norwegian 25%, Star 25% - %= how many cruises sold
Discount Mediterranean Cruises





Cruises Feedback: I am not exactly sure of what you are after but in my opinion the big players are the two multi-line conglomerates of Carnival and Royal Caribbean.
Carnival Cruise Lines is the parent company for a conglomerate that includes Carnival Cruise lines, Holland America Line, Cunard Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line and Costa Cruises. The Carnival line has about 22 ships, Holland America has 14 ships, Cunard has 3 ships, Princess has 18 ships, Seabourn has 4 ships, and Costa has 14 ships. So that’s about 70 ships in the company and spanning everything from the Carnival’s budget cruises to the more upscale Princess, Cunard, and Holland America to the luxury of Seaborne cruises. Their ships cover the world with cruises and have cruises as short as 3 days and as long as 130 days.
CARNIVAL:
Royal Caribbean International cruise line is the parent company for Royal Caribbean Cruise lines, Celebrity Cruise lines, CDF Croisieres de France, Azamara Cruises and Pullmantur cruises. Royal Caribbean has 20 ships and more coming next year. Celebrity has 10 ships, Azamara has 2 ships, CDF has 3 ships, and Pullmantour has 6 ships. Their ships total is about 40 ships. They also cover the world and have cruises from 3 to over 100 days.
ROYAL CARIBBEAN:…..
Norwegian is actually owner by Star cruises PLC of Malaysia. The NCL fleet is 11 ships but Star cruises has a total of 22 ships. So NCL is the third largest cruise line
NORWEGIAN:
Disney is not in the big leagues at all because it has only 2 ships and a couple more on order.
DISNEY:…..
Cruises Feedback: CCL ownes carnival, Yahts of seaborne,princess, holland america and costa.
RCCL ownes royal caribbean and celebrity crusies
NCL ownes NCL and NCLA
CCL is the biggest player. 75%, RCCL 20%, NCLA 5%