America World City
was designed to
serve three distinct markets:

the $40 billion-a-year conventional cruise
market;

the $100 billion-a-year meeting and conference
market; and

the much larger general leisure travel market
that encompasses all domestic and
international vacation travel, including general
tourism, theme parks, resorts, spa, shopping,
gaming and entertainment venues.

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America World City will be
registered under the American
flag. Under U.S. law, only a
U.S.-built and U.S.-registered
ship can engage in coastwise
trade which is essential to
attract the meeting and confer-
ence market as well as first-
time cruisers who may wish to
visit the ship for only one day or
two. With a coastwise itinerary
and the flexibility of the
city-ship’s day cruisers, guests
can come and go as they like,
check in and check out as with
any land-based hotel, resort or

conference facility (as opposed
to when the ship returns to port).

The American Flagship offers
over 100,000 sq. feet of
dedicated meeting, conference
and exhibition space, thousands
of comparable guest rooms for
meeting attendees, and a
broad range of activities and
amenities for accompanying
family members. Operating
under the Stars & Stripes, the
city-ship will trade, for example,
from New York in the spring,

summer and fall, and from
Port Canaveral in the winter
months. Taken together, this
itinerary encompasses 25
metropolitan areas and 12 of the
nation’s and the world’s largest
tourist destinations, attracting
a population of 100-million
Americans within an hour’s
drive of a place where they
could get on or off the city-ship.
Moreover, only meetings
conducted on American-flagged
vessels are eligible for tax
deductibility under U.S. law.