Filippos Venetopoulos, CEO of Variety Cruises, has weighed in on the benefits, as well as the challenges, of operating small cruise ships.

Coral Expeditions appointed Jarrod Zurvas to the newly created role of sales and distribution manager Asia Pacific.

Joe Maloney, who has 20 years of C-suite cruise and travel industry experience, was named VP sales, North America at Swan Hellenic. 

Katie McAlister, who has a strong background in marketing, is to become Cunard’s new president and will commence the role in August.

Celestyal aims to expand its presence in key markets, appointing Tobias Klitsch VP of global market development and Beth Hulett as global market development manager. 

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings shares were trading up more than 9% Monday after the company beat earnings and revenue expectations and met or exceeded all guided metrics for the first quarter.

The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators appointed Silversea Cruises' Stefan Kredel to its executive committee.

Frank Del Rio's 2022 compensation totaled $21.2m, compared to $19.7m in 2021, $36.4m in 2020 and $17.8m in 2019.

Cathy Kusuma returned to Atlas Ocean Voyages as VP sales operations, while Gair O'Neill joined as senior director of guest relations and special services and Jason O'Keefe as director of corporate communications and development.

American Queen Voyages appointed Lissette Balbiers as SVP finance & accounting and Susan Anderson as director of finance & controller.