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Margaritaville has announced that Margaritaville at Sea, an offshore resort experience, has launched with a Par-A-Dice Casino. The first cruise ship, Margaritaville Paradise, will offer the fun, escapism, and state of mind synonymous with the global lifestyle brand. “To me, the only thing better than being on a beach by the ocean, is to be on…

On March 2, 2020, Virgin Voyages cancelled its elaborate New York launch celebration for its Fincantieri-built, Scarlet Lady cruise ship. Having left PortMiami for its inaugral sailing season in late February, where it was due to take 2,770 sailors and 1,150 crew around the Caribbean, the Scarlet Lady ignominiously left harbour in New York with…

The family-owned, East Westphalian Gauselmann Group has expanded its involvement in the cruise ship segment by opening a casino on the new TUI Cruises cruise ship Mein Schiff 2. The official baptism of the ship took place in February in Lisbon. The Gauselmann Group has been operating a CMM on Mein Schiff 1 since last…

North Korea is looking for investors to fund a casino cruise liner looking to boost maritime tourism in the Mount Kumgang tourist region, a special development zone and port. Despite gambling being banned in North Korea, the government is looking for up to $20m to operate a casino-cruise ship sailing to Southeast Asia and Vladivostok,…

The Congress, a political party in Goa, has vowed to ban and remove all floating casinos permanently from its rivers, putting between 5,000 and 10,000 people out of work. Congress Chief Luizinho Faleiro said: “We will ban both off-shore and on-shore casinos. In the first phase, off-shore casinos will be removed. Those on the shore…

Malaysian company Podiumspot Capital Group has started work on what it says will be the world’s largest casino cruise ship, called the Crusino. It is expected to take three years to build. Crusino will measures 295m in length and 36m in width and will accommodate up to 3,200 passengers. T. Leonard, the CEO of Podiumspot…

Century Casinos has opened a casino onboard the Glory Sea of Diamond Cruise International Co., Ltd. on it’s maiden voyage from Shanghai, China to Shimonoseki, Japan. The Glory Sea has a capacity of over 1,200 passengers and will focus on the Chinese cruise market with four-day trips between China, South Korea andJapan. The state-of-the-art casino…

The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has approved the first application for a casino cruise liner received from Crystal Cruises, which is represented in Malta by Gollcher Group, for its award-winning Crystal Serenity which will call to Malta on June 5 and 6, 2015. Crystal’s onboard casinos on Crystal Serenity are stylish venues offering Blackjack, Craps,…

Malta’s land-based casinos will face new competition from cruise liners which will be allowed to operate casinos in return for a license fee per ship payable to the government. The fee, which is €500 for cruise liners carrying less than 1,500 passengers and €1,000 for cruise ships carrying more, will allow cruise liners to operate…