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Carnival Now Offers Complimentary Cruise Opportunity For Travel Agents Who Complete All Carnival Passport Training Levels

MIAMI(November 11, 2015) – As part of a new incentive under the Carnival Passporttraining program, Carnival is awarding a complimentary cruise to travel agentswho complete all six levels of the award-winning sales and marketing traininginitiative. <?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

Travelagents may select a sailing from the line’s popular Seminar at Sea programwhich provides agents an opportunity to experience the Carnival productfirst-hand while learning about a variety of topics such as product enhancements,social media strategies and sales and marketing techniques.

Tomake qualifying for the complimentary cruise even easier, the line is alsosignificantly increasing the amount of credits agents may earn for completingtutorials within Carnival Passport. Effective immediately, agents will earn 50credits for completing tutorials of 30 minutes or less and 100 credits forcompleting tutorials greater than 30 minutes (previously agents earned 10 and20 credits, respectively, for completing these tutorials.)

“Wewanted to show our appreciation to the 20,000 agents who are expanding theirsales and marketing knowledge each month through Carnival Passport by offeringthem an opportunity to earn a complimentary cruise,” said Carnival’s VicePresident of Trade Sales & Marketing Adolfo Perez. “While we know theeducational opportunities within Carnival Passport are valuable to agents, weknow the time they take to advance in the program is valuable, as well, whichis why we’re introducing this exciting new incentive.”

Carnival Passport is the line’s comprehensivetraining portal that houses all of Carnival’s educational activities in oneeasy-to-access area within GoCCL.com, the line’s travel agent Internetportal. With Carnival Passport, agents may select learning activitiesthat best suit their particular educational needs while earning credits alongthe way. Travel professionals can earn credits within Carnival Passport byparticipating in tutorials, webinars, trade shows, seminars at sea and more.

In addition, Carnival Passport also featuresCarnival Adventures, the line’s social learning game for travel agents that isunique in the cruise industry and is designed to provide a fun and engagingplatform for learning more about the company and all of its helpful tools.

After completing various levels within CarnivalPassport, agents will be issued credits, which they can convert into pointsapplicable to the line’s Travel Agent Rewards Program. Additionalfeatures and benefits of Carnival Passport include a menu highlighting live andupcoming events, a video library and an educational catalog that references allof the offerings within the site.

Credit increases will be applied in Carnival Passportautomatically. Agents who are registered in Carnival Passport will see theiramount of total credits earned increase for all tutorials previouslycompleted. Carnival will be making these credit adjustments in earlyNovember.

For additional information, travel agents may visitGoCCL.com.

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AboutCarnival Cruise Line

Carnival,a unit of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is"The World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 24 ships operatingthree- to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska,Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand and the PacificIslands. The company currently has two new 133,500-ton ships on order--CarnivalVista, set to debut in 2016, and an as-yet-unnamed vessel scheduled to enterservice in 2018.

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