Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy and Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse joined the Times Square Alliance President of Countdown Entertainment Jeffrey Straus on December 31 to flip the swap that lit New York City’s well-known New Year’s Eve Ball for the countdown to 2023.
The occasion, which marked the beginning of the brand new yr, was attended by 1000’s of people that gathered in Times Square to observe the enduring ball drop. The Carnival Cruise Line executives’ attendance on the world-famous occasion coincides with the 2023 promoting marketing campaign the cruise line has arrange and the upcoming sailings of Carnival Venezia from New York.
Carnival Plays Big Role in Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration
Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy and Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse had the honour of collaborating in one of the vital vital occasions on the earth on New Year’s Eve.
Together, Duffy and Lagasse joined Times Square Alliance President of Countdown Entertainment Jeffrey Straus in flipping the swap that lit the New Year’s Eve Ball, which has develop into an iconic image of the annual celebration in Times Square.
The ball, which is made up of over 2,600 Waterford Crystal triangles, is illuminated by 32,000 LED lights and weighs over 11,000 kilos. As the clock struck midnight, the ball started descending down a flagpole, signaling the beginning of the brand new yr.
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Duffy has been the President of Carnival Cruise Line since February 2015. Lagasse, alternatively, is a famend chef, tv character, and restaurateur. He has made a reputation for himself within the culinary world together with his distinctive mix of Creole and French cooking kinds and is extensively thought-about one of the vital influential cooks of his technology.
Carnival has Big Plans For 2023
That Carnival Cruise Line has such an enormous presence at an occasion such because the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebrations isn’t any coincidence.
A short time earlier than the occasion, Duffy posted the next on her Linkedin account: “Our Chief Culinary Officer Emeril Lagasse and I are getting ready to flip the switch in Times Square!”
“Along with fleetwide New Year’s Eve celebrations, we’re ringing in 2023 in New York City as the official cruise line sponsor of Times Square New Year’s Eve. We’ll be inviting everyone to #ChooseFunTogether, which is also the theme of our new advertising campaign for 2023.”
ChooseFunTogether is the promoting marketing campaign for Carnival Cruise Line for 2023. Officially launched throughout Christmas, the marketing campaign noticed a nationwide launch level in the course of the New Year. Besides the Times Square celebrations, Carnival acted as musical sponsor and countdown clock sponsor for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” on ABC.
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Christine Duffy mentioned: “As we head into 2023, now we have much more causes to have a good time and so it’s acceptable that America’s cruise line be a part of America’s most iconic New Year’s celebration.
“We’ve got two new ships joining the fleet next year, including the start of year-round service from New York in June on Carnival Venezia, which will offer our upcoming Carnival Fun Italian Style experience, and then we’ll end the year with Carnival Jubilee arriving in Galveston. We’re looking forward to continuing this exciting period of growth and building on the success of the past year.”
Carnival Venezia will be part of Carnival Cruise Line in June of this yr. The cruise ship is becoming a member of the Carnival fleet from the Italian cruise line Costa Cruises. While Carnival can be including a number of options for which the cruise line is legendary, a number of of the options that Costa Venezia was recognized for will stay.
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Carnival Jubilee will be part of the Carnival fleet afterward within the yr. She can be crusing from Galveston, Texas, and is the sister ship to Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration, the finest cruise ship of 2022 and the finest new cruise ship of 2022, respectively.
The launch of the Choose Fun Together marketing campaign comes because the cruise trade’s 2023 wave season kicks off, a time when many Americans and journey advisors start planning their cruises.
