The port of Santander will be the host between April 28 and 30 of the Cruise Europe Conference, the annual meeting held by this organization that integrates more than one hundred members among which are the most important ports in northern Europe, shipping companies and operators of the cruise sector.
Throughout three days, the almost hundred participants who have confirmed their assistance will celebrate different sector meetings and will discuss the current situation of the cruise industry in northern Europe.
On Tuesday 28 the first meetings will take place, these will be raised by regions, differentiating four: Iceland, Norway and fierce; the Baltic; United Kingdom and Ireland and the West Coast of Europe.
The next day, Wednesday 29, the Europe Cruise Conference will formally begin, whose inaugural day will be attended by the president of Cantabria, Ignacio Diego; the president of Ports of the State, José Llorca; The mayor of Santander, Íñigo de la Serna, the president of Cruise Europe, Michael McCarthy, and the president of the port of Santander, José Joaquín Martínez Sieso.
Behind her, the different presentations and activities in charge of specialized companies such as Tui Cruises, Holland and American Line, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, noble Caledonia or Pullmantur will be developed.
In parallel, visits have been organized to show Santander and other points of Cantabria, such as Cabárceno, Santillana del Mar and Comillas, with the aim of making the city and region known as an optimal destination for cruises and showing large companies of the sector the potential of the community as a place of high interest for excursions and activities for the cruisers.
Santander's candidacy to organize the Cruise Europe Conference presented last year in Riga, the capital of Latvia, during the 2014 Organization Conference. The documentation that was presented for this candidacy was jointly developed between the Government of Cantabria, the City Council and the port of Santander. In 2009 the three institutions created the Cruise Forum, an agency that has since managed the promotion of Santander as a destination for holiday ships.