Royal Caribbean announced is canceling all stops to Turkey for the 2018 season in Europe, reports the Royal Caribbean Blog.

An 8-year-old girl died aboard Carnival Glory today after falling from two decks into ships interior atrium. According to Miami-Dade Police Department, the terrible tragedy happened at 8:15 a.m. while the vessel was docked at the Port of Miami.

Carnival Glory had just arrived from a 7 Nights Caribbean voyage and everyone was getting ready to disembark the ship when the girl fell.

Starting October 15, 2017, to February 3, 2018, the Carnival cruise ship Carnival Fascination, will serve as the new home for hurricane relief workers in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

The Italian cruise company Costa Cruises, started a pilot program enabling their employees to work one day per week from their homes. The program named “Sm @ rt Working Costa - Moving Forward" will allow all 1300 office employees in Italy, and abroad opportunity to choose one day a week to work from home or at another suitable place of their choice.

Thomson Cruises, the third largest cruise company in the United Kingdom, announced it will change its name to Marella Cruises. The company wanted a name that reflected the spirit of exploration and discovery through the seas, therefore it has chosen Marella, which in Celtic language, means "shining sea".

Celebrity Cruises plans to invest $400m into modernizing its entire fleet by the end of 2023. The largest investment project the brand has ever made is named the 'Celebrity Revolution.' All 9 cruise ships currently in the fleet will be getting some features inspired by the newbuild Celebrity Edge, coming by the end of 2018.

Royal Caribbean human resources representatives led by RCCL Crew Management Inc. Manager Ronald De Guzman are in the Philippines for recruiting of a significant number of cruise ship employees.

Following the recent developments in Catalonia, two cruise ships canceled their arrival in Barcelona. Last Sunday, October 1, on the day of the referendum, the cruise ship Mein Schiff 3 divert its route to avoid Barcelona. Instead, the 293 meters vessel with more than 2,000 passengers arrived in Valencia.

Leading the way in hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean, Royal Caribbean released the official numbers of delivered aid and evacuation of people on their cruise ships.In total Royal Caribbean evacuated 5,507 people and 122 pets on cruise ships from the affected islands.

Costa Cruises and the superstar Shakira presented the official start of the donation project “Building Happiness” for construction of a school in Colombia. The project by the Pies Descalzos Foundation aims to help disadvantaged families and children in Colombia by providing access to quality education.