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Mojib Latif enthuses AIDA guests with his dedication to climate protection

AIDA'smarine and climate protection expert on board as a guest lecturer

As part of theevent series "Celebrities read," the marine and climate protection expert MojibLatif has been on board AIDAsol since February 26, 2017.

On theseven-day cruise around the Canary Islands, guests still have a chance to seeLatif in exciting readings and talks until March 5, 2017. The dedicated marineand climate protector reads from his book "The End of the Oceans" ("Das Endeder Ozeane"), among other things. In a talk moderated by Dr. Monika Griefahn,Chief Sustainability Officer at AIDA Cruises, guests also receive fascinatinginsights into the subject of marine and climate protection and how climatechange can be limited.

"I feel verywelcome on board. I want to make it clear to the guests how unique our worldis. We have to live differently on our planet and manage to make moreintelligent use of our limited resources," says Latif.

AIDA guestswill once more be able to enjoy highly varied entertainment at sea in 2017. Itis not only the ship and the destinations that define an AIDA vacation cruise,but also the multi-award-winning on-board entertainment program. Well over 20well-known presenters, actors and best-selling writers from the movies,television and theater will be captivating guests on board during 2017 withtheir entertaining, exciting, amusing, and moving readings. They include TVpresenter Bettina Tietjen, the award-winning crime thriller and screenplaywriter Elisabeth Hermann, best-selling writer and singer Hera Lind, and NDRTalkshow presenter and producer Hubertus Meyer-Burkhard.

Furtherinformation about AIDA vacation world offers is available at travel agencies,on www.aida.de/aidaplus or at the AIDACustomer Center at +49 (0) 381 / 20 27 07 07.

CAPTION (fromleft to right) Volker Baumgart (Captain AIDAsol), Dr. Monika Griefahn (ChiefSustainability Officer AIDA Cruises), Mojib Latif (AIDA marine and climateprotection expert), Janine Drynda (Entertainment Manager AIDAsol)

Rostock,Thursday, March 2, 2017

About MojibLatif
Mojib Latif(60) is the director of the research field of ocean circulation and climatedynamics at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel. Among otherthings, he is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, the German Clubof Rome Association, and chairman of the German Climate Consortium. In 2001 and2007, he was co-author of the reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change). He has been a professor at the University of Kiel since 2003.Professor Mojib Latif is a climate researcher at the Helmholtz Center for OceanResearch in Kiel and patron of the climate organization atmosfair.

About AIDACruises
AIDA Cruises isone of the fastest growing and most successful tourism businesses in Germany.The company employs about 8,000 people from 40 different countries at theircorporate offices and on board AIDA ships. AIDA Cruises operates one of theworld's most state-of-the-art fleets, currently comprising 11 cruise ships. Insummer 2017 AIDA Cruises will welcome its twelfth cruise ship – AIDAperla – tothe fleet with the smiling lips, and will be offering cruises from Palma deMallorca and Barcelona.
Two more newships will be built by 2021 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg (Germany). Withits "Green Cruising" concept, AIDA Cruises will be the first cruise company inthe world that can power its new generation of ships entirely with LNG (liquidnatural gas) from 2018. More information at www.aida.de

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