Holland America Line celebrated the keel laying of its new 2,650-guest Pinnacle Class ship on Aug. 22 at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Italy.

For the first time, Carnival Pride will operate a series of 10- to 14-day Caribbean cruises round-trip from Baltimore and one-way between Baltimore and San Juan.

Leave it to Carnival Cruise Lines to take the #IceBucketChallenge to another level! The world’s most popular cruise line enlisted all 24 of its “Fun Ships,” as well as President and CEO Gerry Cahill, to participate in the #IceBucketChallenge.

Travel professionals who make five new Carnival bookings have a chance to win one of 40 $1,000 cash prizes or the grand prize of $10,000 as part of the line’s new “Book Five & Win” contest, which begins today and runs through October 15.

Holland America Line launched a “Discover Canada & New England Sweepstakes” that will award five of the line’s Pinterest followers a $500 American Express gift card.

Holland America Line’s ms Prinsendam kicks off the new year on Jan 3, 2015 with a 68-day Grand South America and Antarctica Voyage followed by a 55-day Grand Mediterranean Voyage.

Carnival Cruise Lines, Texas’ largest cruise operator, today announced an exclusive, multi-year partnership with the Dallas Cowboys, making Carnival the Official Cruise Line of the legendary NFL franchise and expanding the cruise operator’s already wide-ranging commitment to the Texas market.

Today Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE:CCL; NYSE:CUK), announced that it has reached an agreement with the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to build a new ship, which will enter service in 2017.

Costa Cruises is saying Grazie Mille! — Italian for Thanks a million! — to travel partners with its latest appreciation gratuity program that offers agents an opportunity to earn gift cards and a free Costa cruise based on their Costa bookings.

Costa Cruises’ Costa neoRiviera recently achieved the highest scores across the fleet on customer satisfaction surveys.