Club de Croisière de Marseille Provence
Marseille Provence Cruise Club
1992 : The five-year development scheme of the Marseille-Fos harbour
1993 : The Cruise Charter
1995 : Marseille Global Offer: the Costa Croisières dossier
1996 : Creation of the Marseille Provence Cruise Club
The Marseille Provence Cruise Club is the result of a consensus that gave birth to an ambition.
The Marseille Provence Cruise Club is led by the Marseille Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the City of Marseille and the Marseille Port Authority, and gathers together all the economic and institutional network players involved in the development of this trade.
It is a truly effective tool for the development of the cruise business, covering three fields of action: promoting stopovers and departures from Marseille, welcoming passengers both at the port and in town, and adapting harbour facilities and services:
- Promoting stopovers and departures from Marseille through promotional actions with shipowners, participation in trade shows, creation and distribution of information tools to both professionals and the general public (guidebooks, booklets, website...) and the creation of Top Cruise, the annual cruise rendez-vous.
- Meeting passengers with an operational welcome system in the harbour for every stopover (Provencal market, hostesses from the Marseille Tourist Office, downtown shuttle bus-stops...) and assuring the coordination of and information to all operators involved in the smooth running of stopovers in Marseille (professionals, harbour, Customs, national and municipal police, airport, railway station...).
In 2009, more than 700 000 cruise passengers will stopover in the Port of Marseille and 75% of them will visit the city or the surrounding area, boosting the local economy. Out of the question then to let them go away dissatisfied, especially as “word of mouth” travels wonderfully well in the cruise world.
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