After difficult three years since the start of the pandemic and the amazing return back to cruising in 2022, the cruise lines have many reasons to celebrate this holiday season. 

Carnival Cruise Line will bring the fun at sea at the annual New Year’s Eve celebration as the official sponsor of Times Square New Year's Eve, musical sponsor, and countdown clock sponsor for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" on ABC. Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy will joinn the celebrations by lighting the iconic New Year's Eve Ball in New York's Times Square, together with nearly 100,000 passengers sailing on Carnival's 24 ships.

A guest died aboard the Carnival Legend, on Monday, December 20, while the cruise ship was sailing an 8-day Eastern Caribbean Christmas cruise. Several passengers reported that a man overboard signal was sounded on the public address system saying that from the deck cams there were lights in the water and that the crew even lowered a lifeboat.

The U.S. Coast Guard executed a medical evacuation of a 29-year-old female crew member from the cruise ship Carnival Valor. The crew member was medevacked on Saturday evening as the ship was sailing on the Mississippi River near Port Sulphur, Louisiana. 

A guest aboard the Carnival Valor has been rescued by the Coast Guard after being reported missing on Thursday while the ship was sailing in the Gulf of Mexico.

The missing man was last seen at a bar with his sister and left to use the restroom at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday night. He never returned, and his sister reported him missing to the ship's authorities the following day.

Carnival Cruise Line celebrated the arrival of its newest flagship Carnival Celebration at Port Miami with a christening ceremony by actress Cassidy Gifford on Sunday evening. The festivities were befitting of the ship's name and underscored Carnival's year-long celebration of 50 years of fun.

U.S. News & World Report, today released its annual rankings of the Best Cruise Lines, evaluating 17 top cruise lines across six categories. The rankings are intended to help travelers select the best cruise by brand, region, traveler type and budget.

Carnival Corporation has been named for the second consecutive year as one of the World's Top Female-Friendly Companies of 2022 by Forbes. The recognition builds on a series of other distinguished honors Carnival Corporation has earned this year from the leading source of business news for companywide operations and dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion, including the World's Best Employers of 2022 and Best Employers for Diversity for 2022.

As the health situation related to COVID-19 continues to improve across the world, most cruise lines have started to relax the mask policy for the crew. Crew Center has talked to crew members working on several major cruise lines to find out what are the latest crew mask policies. Surprisingly most of them said that masks are now optional and not a requirement in all crew and guest areas.

The world's largest cruise company Carnival Corporation is honored for the second consecutive year by Forbes World’s Best Employers for 2022. Forbes released this year’s sixth annual ranking in partnership with Statista including 800 companies that received the highest scores. On the prestigious annual listing among the best global employers from over 20 major industries Carnival Corporation has ranked 418 in the Transportation and Logistics category.