Why Marella cruises?

Hi all,

I have been a bit out of touch recently, and have just noticed the name change. Why is it Marella and not Tui? And when did it change?

Sweby

It has changed in the last three weeks or so and is tied in with parent company TUI dumping the well-known UK holiday brand-name Thomson. TUI cruises are essentially a German brand who operate the Mein Schiff ships, so they needed a new name for Thomson Cruises. Such a shame to see the name Thomson disappear!

Think they changed names due to the poor reputation of Thomson Cruises

Thomson cruises did not have a bad reputation at all The name was changed as German TUI have dropped the English name Thomson completely from aircraft, land based holidays and now from cruises and some of us are very sad to see the name go