Who owns Celebrity Cruises?
Celebrity Cruises is owned by Royal Caribbean Group (the United States, NYSE: RCL).[1]
Evidence: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, 11 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Miami
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Travel & transport › Cruise lines
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: RCL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises is a wholly owned global brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, positioned in the premium segment according to the group's FY2025 10-K. Celebrity Cruises Inc. is named there as one of the group's U.S. taxpaying subsidiaries.
What Royal Caribbean Group's annual report says about Celebrity Cruises
Sentences about Celebrity Cruises from Royal Caribbean Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Cruises is positioned within the premium segment of the vacation industry.
Celebrity Cruises' strategy is to target consumers by delivering a destination-rich experience on upscale ships that offer, among other things, excellent food 2 and drink, elevated hospitality, world-class spaces and accommodations, and live entertainment.
Celebrity Cruises offers a range of itineraries to destinations, including Alaska, Asia, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, the Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, New Zealand, the Panama Canal and South America, with cruise lengths generally ranging from three to 18 nights.
How often Royal Caribbean Group names Celebrity Cruises in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Celebrity Cruises
- Current owner Royal Caribbean Group [1] verified
Where Celebrity Cruises sits in Royal Caribbean Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in travel & transport.
Also in travel & transport
Other brands in cruise lines, and who owns them
The 26 brands in cruise lines on Brandtree belong to 18 owners. The largest is Carnival, with 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Carnival Cruise Line | Carnival | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Norwegian Cruise Line | Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Crystal | A&K Travel Group | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| American Cruise Lines | American Cruise Lines | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aurora Expeditions | Aurora Expeditions | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Celestyal Cruises | Celestyal | 🇬🇷 Greece |
| Disney Cruise Line | Disney | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Heritage Expeditions | Heritage Expeditions | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
About the owner: Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Miami, United States. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: RCL.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. runs its executive office and principal shoreside operations from leased offices at the Port of Miami, per its FY2025 10-K. The filing names Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea as its wholly owned global brands, and holds 50% of TUI Cruises GmbH, an unconsolidated joint venture with TUI AG that runs TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The 10-K notes Azamara was sold in March 2021.
Royal Caribbean Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Celebrity Cruises and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Celebrity Cruises is not one of them.
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- Alaska Airlines — Alaska Air Group 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Celebrity Cruises?
The parent company of Celebrity Cruises is Royal Caribbean Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Celebrity Cruises American?
Yes. Celebrity Cruises originated in the United States and its owner, Royal Caribbean Group, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Celebrity Cruises still owned by Royal Caribbean Group?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Celebrity Cruises is still owned by Royal Caribbean Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., SEC Form 10-K, published 11 February 2026; retrieved 5 October 2026.
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