Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy and Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse joined the Instances Sq. Alliance President of Countdown Leisure Jeffrey Straus on December 31 to flip the change that lit New York Metropolis’s well-known New 12 months’s Eve Ball for the countdown to 2023.
The occasion, which marked the beginning of the brand new yr, was attended by hundreds of people that gathered in Instances Sq. to observe the long-lasting ball drop. The Carnival Cruise Line executives’ attendance on the world-famous occasion coincides with the 2023 promoting marketing campaign the cruise line has arrange and the upcoming sailings of Carnival Venezia from New York.
Carnival Performs Huge Position in Instances Sq. New 12 months’s Eve Celebration
Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy and Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse had the consideration of collaborating in one of the vital vital occasions on the planet on New 12 months’s Eve.
Collectively, Duffy and Lagasse joined Instances Sq. Alliance President of Countdown Leisure Jeffrey Straus in flipping the change that lit the New 12 months’s Eve Ball, which has develop into an iconic image of the annual celebration in Instances Sq..
The ball, which is made up of over 2,600 Waterford Crystal triangles, is illuminated by 32,000 LED lights and weighs over 11,000 kilos. Because the clock struck midnight, the ball started descending down a flagpole, signaling the beginning of the brand new yr.
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Duffy has been the President of Carnival Cruise Line since February 2015. Lagasse, alternatively, is a famend chef, tv character, and restaurateur. He has made a reputation for himself within the culinary world along with his distinctive mix of Creole and French cooking types and is extensively thought of one of the vital influential cooks of his era.
Carnival has Huge Plans For 2023
That Carnival Cruise Line has such an enormous presence at an occasion such because the Instances Sq. New 12 months’s Eve celebrations isn’t any coincidence.
A short time earlier than the occasion, Duffy posted the next on her Linkedin account: “Our Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse and I are on the point of flip the change in Instances Sq.!”
“Together with fleetwide New 12 months’s Eve celebrations, we’re ringing in 2023 in New York Metropolis because the official cruise line sponsor of Instances Sq. New 12 months’s Eve. We’ll be inviting everybody to #ChooseFunTogether, which can be the theme of our new promoting marketing campaign for 2023.”
ChooseFunTogether is the promoting marketing campaign for Carnival Cruise Line for 2023. Formally launched throughout Christmas, the marketing campaign noticed a nationwide launch level in the course of the New 12 months. Apart from the Instances Sq. celebrations, Carnival acted as musical sponsor and countdown clock sponsor for “Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” on ABC.
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Christine Duffy mentioned: “As we head into 2023, we have now much more causes to have fun and so it’s applicable that America’s cruise line be a part of America’s most iconic New 12 months’s celebration.
“We’ve acquired two new ships becoming a member of the fleet subsequent yr, together with the beginning of year-round service from New York in June on Carnival Venezia, which can supply our upcoming Carnival Enjoyable Italian Fashion expertise, after which we’ll finish the yr with Carnival Jubilee arriving in Galveston. We’re wanting ahead to persevering with this thrilling interval of progress and constructing on the success of the previous yr.”
Carnival Venezia will be part of Carnival Cruise Line in June of this yr. The cruise ship is becoming a member of the Carnival fleet from the Italian cruise line Costa Cruises. Whereas Carnival shall be including a number of options for which the cruise line is legendary, a number of of the options that Costa Venezia was recognized for will stay.
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Carnival Jubilee will be part of the Carnival fleet in a while within the yr. She shall be crusing from Galveston, Texas, and is the sister ship to Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration, the greatest cruise ship of 2022 and the greatest new cruise ship of 2022, respectively.
The launch of the Select Enjoyable Collectively marketing campaign comes because the cruise trade’s 2023 wave season kicks off, a time when many People and journey advisors start planning their cruises.
