{"id":33207,"date":"2006-03-08T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/03\/08\/costa-crociere-gets-first-international-cruise-license-in-china\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T15:07:33","slug":"costa-crociere-gets-first-international-cruise-license-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/03\/08\/33207\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Crociere Gets First International Cruise License In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy's Costa Crociere has become the first international cruise line to be awarded a licence to operate in China.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company has opened new offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong and expects to carry 55 000 Chinese cruise passengers in its first year of operations from July.<\/p>\n<p>The company's 1000-passenger Costa Allegra is en-route from its former Caribbean base to undergo a six-week, Euro12-million refit in Genoa to broaden its appeal to Chinese tastes.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the ship's current styling is deemed too minimalist for Chinese tastes and the refit will include fountains, statues, and representations of the Colosseum.<\/p>\n<p>The Costa Allegra will begin five-day cruises from Shanghai on July 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy's Costa Crociere has become the first international cruise line to be awarded a licence to operate in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}