The Cruise Canada New England Alliance is an 11-year-old partnership which groups together NYCruise, Cruiseport Boston, CruiseMaine USA, Cruise Atlantic Canada and Cruise the Saint Lawrence.
Partners pool their marketing strengths and cruise industry experience to create a variety of attractive tourist destinations for domestic and international cruise lines seeking to offer guests unique venues and novel destinations.
Alliance members jointly market the Canada New England region to cruise lines in the United States and Europe through personal contact and by attending cruise industry events.
Years of mutual cooperation have spawned superior results. In 2010, cruise lines made a total of 1 019 ship calls at member ports of the Cruise Canada New England Alliance, bringing to 1.4 million the number of cruiseshippers who embarked, disembarked or made port of call visits to this unique, historic and picturesque region.
Cruise line guests enjoy one-of-a-kind experiences offered by a diversity of destinations. And, as a result of collective infrastructure investments and joint marketing efforts, members of the Cruise Canada New England Alliance are witnessing steady growth in cruise tourism to the region.