Ultra-luxury cruise company Crystal will require all guests to be fully inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days prior to their Crystal cruise.

Crystal Cruises is tempting the early booker market by releasing its 2023 Worldwide Atlas for its ocean ships, Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity.

Cruise lines have been left scratching their head and scurrying to devise new itineraries after the Government of Canada kiboshed cruise ships carrying 100+ passengers in all Canadian waters until March 2022.

Crystal Cruises has confirmed its maiden purpose-built expedition ship, Crystal Endeavor, is on track for debut in the northern summer of 2021.

Crystal has added a new nine-night Iconic Passages: Corinth & Suez itinerary aboard Crystal Esprit to its 2021 schedule. The 62-guest boutique yacht will embark from Dubrovnik, Croatia on 1 April, 2021 and sail to Aqaba, Jordan, visiting some of the region’s most remarkable sites of historic, spiritual and natural significance during the less crowded spring season.

Crystal has updated its Crystal Confidence 2.0 program to extend the no-money-down deposit window until 5 January 2021 for new and existing bookings.

Genting Hong Kong (GHK) has provided a loan of over AU$300 million to Germany’s MV Werften shipyard to enable the completion of Crystal’s maiden purpose-built luxury expedition ship, Crystal Endeavor.

Cruise industry executive Jack Anderson will take the helm of Crystal as the company’s interim president and CEO. The change at the top comes as Tom Wolber, Crystal’s president and CEO since September 2017, steps down to spend more time with his family and to “pursue other interests”.

Crystal has expanded its health and safety measures for its Crystal Clean+ protocols to include requirements for COVID-19 testing for guests and crew, mandatory travel insurance, in-port guidelines and more.

Crystal Cruises is encouraging travellers dreaming of a post-pandemic cruise to fuel their wanderlust and curate future travels now with total peace of mind. For a limited time, Crystal Confidence 2.0 invites travellers to plan a future voyage and reserve their shore excursions with no money down and a 30-day option window.

Crystal Yacht Cruises has opened bookings for the complete deployment for the all-suite, 62-guest Crystal Esprit for 2023 through the first quarter of 2024.

A series of training videos offering step-by-step instructions on how to use the features of Crystal’s online booking engine, CruiseBuilder, has been launched. Topics of the videos – each less than a minute – include How to Check Availability, How to Check Pricing and How to Make a Fast Quote, among others with the aim of showing the ease and simplicity of the booking process for travel agents.