Exceptional,
Extraordinary,
ESPECIALLY Talented?

Does this describe you or someone you work with?

There are a lot of exceptional people in the cruise holiday sector. They are innovative, under 35 and getting noticed by their bosses, their colleagues and their rivals.

Cruise Trade News is launching the Rising Stars Awards to seek out talented people and recognise them across 8 categories for their current contributions and their likely roles in the future success of the industry. You can self-nominate or use the entry form to nominate a colleague or member of staff.

Every nominee will need to show the judges that they meet the key attributes:

Dynamism
Initiative
Creativity
Effectiveness

Rising Stars

Winners

Cruise Trade News today named seven members of the cruise industry as Rising Stars. The winners, all aged 35 and under, were judged by a panel of industry leaders and were presented with their awards at a lunchtime ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel in London.

The following winners were announced in seven categories: Rebekka Gale, Cruise 118, (Cruise Agent Sales Rising Star); Alex Loizou, Mundy Cruising, (Cruise Agent Marketing Rising Star); Ami Fargher, GoCruise, (Cruise Agent Management Rising Star); Rebekah Keeler, ABP Southampton (Ports & Destinations Rising Star); Katie Brickell, Holland America Line & Seabourn (Cruise Line Sales Rising Star); Lauren Burrill, Royal Caribbean International, (Cruise Line Marketing Rising Star); and Paul Tavener, Viking Cruises (Cruise Line Management Rising Star).

Two of these were also bestowed with overall winner titles. These were Rebekka Gale, Cruise 118 (Cruise Agent) and Paul Tavener, Viking Cruises (Cruise Line).

A shortlist of 25 finalists attended todayís lunch with the Rising Stars cruise line partners, headline sponsor Royal Caribbean International, Saga Holidays, Oceania Cruises and Uniworld.

Stuart Leven, managing director, Royal Caribbean International, said: ìIf you are a Rising Star you should not be playing it safe. You have to take risks: be creative, be bold and be single-minded in what you want to achieve. It’s an extremely exciting time for the cruise industry, with the best of hardware currently being built. It is critical we invest in our future leaders to recognise the opportunities ahead, which is why we’re supporting, and happy to judge, Rising Stars.

Cruise Trade News group editor Katherine Lawrey added: ìThis is the first year that we have undertaken a search to highlight the brightest and best talent in the cruise industry, and we have been really impressed with the calibre of cruise professionals, who were nominated by colleagues or who put themselves forward. Itís our absolute pleasure to see them honoured in this way, and we look forward to following their careers as they will undoubtedly go from strength to strength.

Discover our winners

About Royal Caribbean International

Royal Caribbean prides itself on being the pioneer of many firsts at sea, offering a playground of incredible experiences on 25 of the world’s most innovative and spectacular ships and visiting over 250 destinations globally. Our ambition is to revolutionise the cruise industry and make every holiday unique and memorable, through our unique sense of fun blended with cutting edge innovation and technology.

Whether that’s wowing guests with our robotic bartenders, dazzling with a 30-foot giraffe or thrilling them with breath-taking destinations, we want to open our guests’ eyes to a new way of travel.

Royal Caribbean was the UK & Ireland travel agent’s favourite cruise line in 2016, and that is in no small part down to the personal and supportive relationships our team has built with them. We also invest heavily in our agent partners with our award winning trade loyalty scheme, Club Royal, and have a dedicated training team who provide the highest level of support to ensure agents are successful in their careers.

Award Categories

There are 8 Award Categories across the cruise line, agent and port/destination sectors:

Cruise Line

  • Management Rising Star
  • Sales Rising Star
  • Marketing (including digital & online) Rising Star
  • Operations Rising Star

Travel/Cruise Agents

  • Management Rising Star
  • Sales Rising Star
  • Marketing Rising Star (including digital & online)

Ports/Destinations

  • Ports/Destination Rising Star (from any of the disciplines above)

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