The Italian company has renewed its entire offer, with a focus on exploring destinations sustainably. There is exciting culinary news thanks to partnerships with chefs Bruno Barbieri, Hélène Darroze and Ángel León, and new tours. All this will be communicated via a new visual identity that makes the company’s change even clearer.

Costa Cruises presents a host of new features for its holidays, completely reshaping what the Italian company has to offer.

Costa’s new concept is based on enabling guests to explore destinations through unique experiences, both on board and ashore. To build these experiences, the company has focused on three key areas – cuisine, tours, sustainability – with a new visual identity to communicate them. The concept is in line with the principles of its “Manifesto for value-driven, sustainable and inclusive tourism”, the decalogue that outlines the company’s commitment to grow together with local communities.

“Now our ships are sailing again, we decided to completely renew our offer. The innovations are so significant that we can talk about a whole new way of travelling with Costa. We want everyone who holidays with us to enjoy unique, enriching experiences, discovering destinations in the most authentic, insightful, sustainable way possible” – explains Mario Zanetti, President of Costa Cruises. “For more than 70 years Costa has been synonymous with cruise travel. At this very important time for the recovery of tourism we wanted to rewrite the future of cruises in a way that is more responsible and mindful of people and the planet, with the aim of steering the sector back to the constant growth it saw before 2020”.

When it comes to cuisine, Costa has called on the expertise of three of the world’s finest chefs: Bruno Barbieri, Hélène Darroze and Ángel León. The exceptional trio of starred chefs has explored authentic local recipes from the destinations visited by Costa ships, reworking them with their own personal know-how. To ensure guests enjoy their culinary voyage to the full, enabling them to discover destinations on board even before they reach them, Costa Cruises has created two major new features: the Archipelago restaurant and Destination Dishes.

Destination Dishes are individual recipes designed by the three chefs, interpreting the traditions and flavours of the places guests will be visiting the following day. They are available at main restaurants on all Costa ships, included in the price of the cruise.

The new Archipelago restaurant, available on Costa Smeralda and coming soon to other ships in the fleet, gives guests a truly unique culinary experience with three menus to choose from, one by each chef. The menus offer 5 exquisite dishes created to explore each part of the sea route through its cuisine. Both the restaurant’s concept and design are equally as innovative. Archipelago features “island” tables for a more intimate experience, framed by a copper sculpture enclosing unique pieces of driftwood, installations made using wood salvaged from the shore. There is a special focus on the theme of sustainability. The chefs’ menus, just like the Destination Dishes, were designed with the greatest attention for the ingredients – most of them sourced from local producers – and how they are prepared, in order to prevent food waste. But that’s