September 5, 2023
Changes also at the top for cultural cruise specialist
Swan Hellenic has named Beth Stolyar as Sales Director, Australia/New Zealand, effective immediately. Stolyar joins the cultural cruise specialist after nearly 4.5 years with MSC Cruises Australia where she held the title of Groups & Product Specialist.
Read More…July 4, 2023
More than 50 itineraries scheduled for SH Vega and SH Diana
Swan Hellenic has announced its 2024 worldwide program, encompassing polar regions and cultural expeditions to the coastlines of the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Africa, Madagascar, Canada, the Caribbean, and more.
Read More…March 21, 2023
SH Minerva continues to be hold up in Uruguay
Swan Hellenic’s inaugural season of Western Australia’s Kimberley region this year is in limbo. The five-star cultural expedition operator’s first ship, SH Minerva, is currently out of service, and future voyages on the 76-stateroom vessel aren’t showing online until November 2023, LATTE can reveal.
Read More…November 8, 2022
Travel advisor with most sales to earn themselves a cultural expedition cruise
Swan Hellenic has introduced an end-of-year incentive for its Australian and New Zealand trade partners. The promotion coincides with Swan Hellenic’s inaugural Kimberley season in 2023.
Read More…October 30, 2022
Former Dream Cruises, NCL, Star Cruises exec to lead cultural expedition line locally
Swan Hellenic has enlisted Brigita Devries as its first Pacific General Manager as the company ramps up for its maiden Kimberley season in 2023.
Read More…September 26, 2022
Cultural expedition cruise line SVP Global Sales and Marketing chats with LATTE
In hindsight, the COVID pandemic certainly wasn’t an ideal time for a new cruise brand to launch, but that didn’t hold back the minds behind the rebirth of Swan Hellenic.
Read More…September 20, 2022
Cultural expedition cruise line expecting Aussie cruisers to fill new Kimberley program
Swan Hellenic will rely almost entirely on the Australian market to fill its Kimberley sailings in 2023 – and beyond – the cruise line’s SVP Global Sales and Marketing, Alfredo Spadon has revealed exclusively to LATTE.
Read More…July 26, 2022
5-star expedition cruise competition heats up for the Broome-Darwin route in 2023
Swan Hellenic has released full details of its 2022/2023 cultural expedition cruises as its fleet grows to two and then three purpose-built, ultramodern ice-class expedition cruise ships.
Read More…July 11, 2022
SH Vega officially named and en route to Tromsø, Norway for inaugural sailing
Swan Hellenic has accepted delivery of its second ice-class expedition cruise ship, SH Vega, from the Helsinki Shipyard. The sister-ship to SH Minerva is now on her way to Norway and her first cultural expedition cruise of the Arctic, an 11-day exploration of the Svalbard Archipelago, departing Tromsø on 20 July 2022.
Read More…June 21, 2022
SH Vega set to go to auction up for auction
Helsinki Shipyard, the company tasked with building three new ships for Swan Hellenic, is inviting tenders for the sale of the second newbuild expedition cruise ship ‘Hull No 517’ (otherwise known as SH Vega).
Read More…January 18, 2022
First photos aboard SH Minerva unveiled after maiden sailing
Swan Hellenic has introduced a new 13-day polar cruise for its debut season in Antarctica.
Read More…December 10, 2021
Inaugural expedition adjustment, now a 10-day New Year cruise
Swan Hellenic’s new ship, SH Minerva, has this week departed Helsinki for Argentina and her first cultural expedition cruise of Antarctica.
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