Viking has opened reservations for the 2026 season of its European river voyages. With many 2024 dates already sold out and the 2025 season selling well, strong demand has led to an early opening of all 2026 departures for Viking’s iconic itineraries on the rivers of Europe.

Viking Aton offers a wide variety of staterooms for your client’s selection. From Deluxe staterooms to the abundance of extra perks and amenities in Viking’s spacious Explorer Suites, there’s no finer way to travel.

Viking Orisis offers a wide variety of staterooms for your client’s selection. From Deluxe staterooms to the abundance of extra perks and amenities in Viking’s spacious Explorer Suites, there’s no finer way to travel.

Purpose-built to navigate the Nile and sail Viking’s bestselling Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary, the new, state-of-the-art Viking Osiris is inspired by Viking’s award-winning river and ocean ships with the elegant Scandinavian design for which Viking is known.

Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen said he believes 2023 will be a “phenomenal year” in terms of sales during an end-of-year address, while referring to 2022 as a “transition year” from the pandemic.

Viking has ratcheted up the number of departures on its top-selling European River Cruises for the 2023 season, adding more than 50 new sailings.

Viking marked its 25th anniversary last Friday, with Chairman Torstein Hagen saying the company has become a “global brand,” while hinting more was yet to come.

A group of eight travel advisors has just returned from sailing Viking’s popular 8-day Rhine Getaway river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel. The group were among the first Australian advisors to sail with Viking since 2019 and for many, this was their first overseas trip in as many years.

Viking has confirmed dates for the first round of its 2022 information sessions in Sydney on 22 June and Brisbane on 7 July 2022.

Viking has welcomed not one, not two, but eight new river ships to its fleet during a celebration in Paris last week. In unison, eight Godmothers christened the vessels, including senior executives from luxury travel networks, Virtuoso and Signature Travel Newtork.

Viking’s first riverboat dedicated to the US market, Viking Mississippi, has been “floated out” in Louisiana, marking a major construction milestone and the first time the ship has touched water. Set to debut in June 2022, Viking Mississippi will sail the Lower and Upper Mississippi River, between New Orleans and St. Paul.

Viking has introduced a handful of new inaugural Mississippi cruises for its launch season next year on the iconic US waterway. The sailings will be operated aboard Viking’s new 386-guest purpose-built state-of-the-art Viking Mississippi, which is inspired by the Viking Longships operated in Europe.