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- Female-Driven Companies Celebrity Cruises And Veuve Clicquot Team Up To Celebrate Innovative New Celebrity Edge Cruise Ship - PRNewswire
- Celebrity Cruises ship 'Edge' feels like a sky-high condo you wished you lived in - Miami Herald
- Please Call Her Captain - The New York Times
- Celebrity Cruises upping its luxury game with American Ballet Theatre, Chef Boulud partnerships - Orlando Sentinel
| Posted: 27 Feb 2019 01:53 PM PST FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Known for their innovative thinking and dedication to empowering women across the globe, Celebrity Cruises and Veuve Clicquot champagne are coming together to create a luxe, memorable experience on Celebrity Cruise's newest and most technologically-advanced ship, Celebrity Edge. The ship debuted during her inaugural season November 2018 and is now booking through the end of 2020. Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Celebrity Cruise president and CEO, is a dynamic business woman who leads the multibillion-dollar brand and its 13 ships traveling to 300+ global ports worldwide. Her commitment to opening up the world through travel has brought unprecedented recognition and awards to Celebrity Cruises for its impact on the industry, the environment and destinations sailed. An avid champion for diversity and inclusion, education, STEM and an advocate for young women, Lutoff-Perlo has challenged the conversation around cultural and gender equality in the maritime industry. She has ignited many initiatives to raise the percentage of female officers on the bridge and landside, including hiring the first female American captain, Captain Kate McCue, the first female African bridge officer, Nicholine Tifuh Azirh, and the first female Ecuadorian captain, Captain Nathaly Alban. Lutoff-Perlo's vision to transform the industry continues with the debut of Celebrity Edge. Alongside more than 500 designers, the team worked together using 3D imaging technology to create many industry firsts across design and engineering. Visionaries created cabins that are open to the seas in a way that has never been seen in ocean cruising, with more than 60% of the 1,467 cabins featuring 'Infinite Verandas' – a wide space that is approximately 23% larger than traditional balcony cabins. The most notable of Celebrity Edge's innovative features is the Magic Carpet, a 90-ton platform the size of a tennis court that is cantilevered over its side, moving up and down the side of the ship to serve various purposes. The exterior moving bar, designed for both function and appeal, moves between the decks to act as a tender-boarding platform, extension of a restaurant, or a lounge flying high above the sea, depending on the time of day. Keeping in line with Lutoff-Perlo's pioneering vision, Celebrity Cruises tapped another brand whose success can be similarly attributed to strong female leadership, Veuve Clicquot champagne. Helmed by one of the world's first known businesswomen, Veuve Clicquot, a name which translates to "Widow Clicquot," was brought to international success in the 1800s by Madame Clicquot. Widowed in 1805 at the young age of 27, she took over her late husband's champagne business and is credited with transforming the brand into one of the greatest champagne houses in the world. Audacious Madame Clicquot discovered innovations including the riddling rack, creating vintage champagne, and making the first ever blended rosé champagne, all of which changed the industry forever and are still used today. An ideal partnership, Veuve Clicquot's signature 'Clicquot Yellow' is prominently featured throughout the Magic Carpet and serves as an integral part of the design aesthetic and premium champagne offerings elevate the customer experience. Cruisers have the opportunity to enjoy Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label, Non-Vintage Rosé, Rich and Rich Rosé, Extra Brut Extra Old, Vintage 2008, and La Grande Dame 2008. Visit www.celebritycruises.com for more information on Celebrity Edge. Please contact Clicquot@LaForce.nyc for more information around the Veuve Clicquot partnership. ABOUT CELEBRITY CRUISES ABOUT VEUVE CLICQUOT SOURCE Veuve Clicquot  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:10 PM PST  Celebrity Cruises ship 'Edge' feels like a sky-high condo you wished you lived inByEdge and the three ships that will follow it advance the design of Celebrity's five-ship Solstice class. Like its predecessors, Edge carries about 2,900 passengers (double occupancy) on design-savvy, culinary-rich voyages.  |
| Please Call Her Captain - The New York Times Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST  "This is Captain Kate, but you can call me Captain because it took me 19 years to earn this title." Those are typically the first words that passengers hear booming over the speakers when they are aboard any cruise ship helmed by Capt. Kate McCue. The announcement continues, like the woman who makes it, friendly and lighthearted, but also sharp and direct. "People don't have a tendency to call men captains by their first name," Captain McCue said on a recent phone call from her home in Las Vegas. Captain McCue became the first American woman to captain a cruise ship in 2015, and commands the Celebrity Equinox — a 122,000-ton, 1041-foot ship in the Celebrity Cruises fleet. Starting in September she will be at the helm of the Celebrity Edge, a billion-dollar ship that was designed by women and overseen by Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Celebrity Cruises' chief executive. What sparked your interest in sailing?My interest in sailing started when I was 12. I went on a four-day cruise with my parents and brother over Thanksgiving. When we got back, I told my dad that I was going to work on cruise ships. I wanted to be the cruise director. My dad said I could be a cruise director or a captain or whatever I wanted. Do you have to join the Navy to become a captain?It depends on the country you come from. Being American, I could have gone through an academy, which is what I did, or I could have started sailing without a license and then put in the time at sea and taken the exams when I could. The academy was a lot more organized and structured with schooling and exams as part of the curriculum. I also could have gone the military route and joined the Navy. More on Cruise Vacations Can you walk me through the process of how you became a captain?As a cadet I worked on banana boats, taking boats between California and Ecuador. I was unhappy doing [this] because I knew I wanted to be on a cruise ship. I applied to every cruise ship and didn't hear back from anyone. I ended up applying to Disney as a bartender and was too qualified for that, probably because I had never been a bartender before, so they passed my C.V. along and I was hired as a third mate on a Disney cruise. That was great, but Disney only had two ships and not much room for growth. From 2003 to 2015 I worked my way up, from the entry level position of second officer, progressing through first officer deck, first officer navigation, first officer safety, chief officer safety and staff captain. What challenges did you encounter on the path to getting where you are now?I don't have war stories. I know that's not the case for everyone, but I've been really blessed in my career. I have only worked on international flagships where everyone is a minority of some sort. Most of us have a different religion, sexual orientation, nationality. When I was promoted I never got negative judgment from the crew, and I think the secret is that I was always surrounded by diversity. Image  Is being a captain in 2018 and 2019 very different than it was, say a decade ago?There used to be the wrath of the captain. Those captains were older, stricter men and they ran the ships very differently. I'm part of a generation called the new age captains. We're in our late 30s and early 40s. There's an interesting gap between the captains who are retiring and the younger people replacing them. I love my job so much I'm not going anywhere for another 40 years, God willing. Why did you want to be involved with the Celebrity Edge?I wanted to be part of Edge because since joining Celebrity Cruises in 2015, I'd heard about this incredible ship that will change the way we see cruising and evolve the industry. I love change and wanted to be part of a something that was bringing such innovation and a new level to the cruising industry. Everything about this ship is revolutionary. It is the first ship to be designed using a 3-D virtual-reality lab. Is there a big wheel on the ship like you see in the movies?The "Christopher Columbus" dial is no longer. People expect to see that, but on new ships what you see is a wheel smaller than the wheel in your car. On one ship we brought the big wheel from a show and would have people and have them steer. It was a fantastic prop. Does your cat, Bug Naked, come aboard?Bug Naked comes when I'm the captain, not when I'm a guest on a trip. She's got her routine on the ship and I've got mine. The guests love having her. This interview took place in December, following the Edge's first trip with passengers. It has been condensed and edited. We have a new 52 Places traveler! Follow Sebastian Modak on Instagram, and discover more Travel coverage by following us on Twitter and Facebook. And if you sign up for our Travel Dispatch newsletter, each week you'll receive tips on traveling smarter, stories on hot destinations and access to photos from all over the world.  |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST There's dinner and a show, and then there's Celebrity Cruises. The line is raising the bar with partnerships with the American Ballet Theatre and Michelin-starred Chef Daniel Boulud. The ballet company was founded in 1939 in New York, and now performs around the world. The cruise line partnership is a first for the cultural icon, and will bring guest performances on board select ships. "American Ballet Theatre's mission is to bring the best of ballet to the widest possible audience," said company Executive Director Kara Medoff Barnett. "We are thrilled to redefine 'widest' to now include audiences at sea."  |
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