Royal Caribbean hires firm to market Anthem of the Seas to younger generation

Anthem of the Seas

Anthem of the Seas is Royal Caribbean’s brand new cruise ship that is under construction and a member of the Quantum class of cruise ships. Anthem of the Seas will have her first cruise in spring 2015, with a homeport yet to be announced.

Royal Caribbean hires firm to market Anthem of the Seas to younger generation

Royal Caribbean has hired marketing firm TVC in an effort to reach a younger audience in the United Kingdom.  Royal Caribbean’s new cruise ship Anthem of the Seas will be based in Southampton and the hiring is in conjunction with the announcement.

The project work will build up to the new ship sailing out from Southampton in April 2015, with couples and families among the key younger groups targeted.

TVC client service director James Myers believes his company can help Royal Caribbean reach a new group of people, “The brief is about reaching a new audience, and reaching people who would not normally consider cruising.”

The six-figure deal will use music to evoke “holidays and good times” to help Royal Caribbean expand its share of the UK cruise market.

“Reaching a new audience is seen as difficult, so we’re trying to help dispel the myth that a cruise holiday may not be the coolest, most credible way to spend a holiday.”

Royal Caribbean brings aboard ‘Mamma Mia!’

Royal Caribbean brings aboard ‘Mamma Mia!’

By Tom Stieghorst
Royal Caribbean International has licensed the Broadway show “Mamma Mia!” for the main stage show on Quantum of the Seas.

The show is built around the music of Swedish ’70s pop group Abba.

It is the fourth licensed Broadway production in Royal Caribbean’s Broadway at Sea lineup, which also includes “Chicago,” “Hairspray” and “Saturday Night Fever.”

Royal Caribbean said the news it had licensed the show was first released to viewers of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, in which it had entered a Quantum float.

The TV broadcast of the parade featured Quantum godmother Kristin Chenoweth aboard the float, lip synching a version of Frank Sinatra’s anthem “New York, New York.”

Anthem of the Seas to sail Med cruises from Southampton; England

Anthem of the Seas to sail Med cruises from Southampton; England

By Jerry Limone
Royal Caribbean said the Anthem of the Seas, a Quantum-class ship due to enter service in April 2015, will sail from Southampton; England in the summer and South Florida in the winter.

The ship will be based in Southampton for Mediterranean cruises. In the winter months, the ship will sail from Fort Lauderdale.

The 4,108-passenger Anthem of the Seas is under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.

The first Quantum-class ship, the Quantum of the Seas, is scheduled to enter service in fall 2014, sailing Florida-Caribbean cruises year-round from Cape Liberty in Bayonne, N.J.