Founded in Italy in 1860, it is a well-known cruise company in Europe under the Carnival Group, and the first international cruise company to enter China

Costa Crociere, S.p.A. is one of Europe's leading cruise lines, with 26 cruise ships in service and a total capacity of more than 72,000 passengers, and plans to add two new ships to expand its fleet by the end of 2016, with a total capacity of 8,700 passengers.

In 2006, Costa Cruises became the first international cruise line to operate in China as its home port. In 2015, Costa China had a total of 168 home port voyages, with nearly 500,000 home port tourists, accounting for 38.31% of the share of inbound and outbound tourists from China's cruise home port, becoming the cruise company with the largest number of home port voyages and tourists operating in China.

Since entering China for more than 10 years, Costa Cruises has always adhered to the service tenet of customer first, allowing more Chinese tourists to experience the ultimate cruise vacation of pure "Italy at Sea".