1. Voted ‘World’s Best’
After entering the industry in 1997, Viking’s river cruise segment has grown rapidly. Travel + Leisure readers have rated Viking as a ‘World’s Best River Cruise Line’ every year since the award’s inception in 2010, and the company now boasts a fleet of 72 river ships, offering scenic voyages along the waterways of Central Europe, Asia, Egypt and Russia.
In 2015, Viking introduced its award-winning river cruise philosophy to the oceans and was named the number one ocean cruise line in the Travel + Leisure ‘World’s Best Awards’ the very next year — and then again in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Viking’s ocean cruise itineraries now cover Europe, the Americas, Scandinavia, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Demand has become so great for Viking cruises that the company has added more than 10 brand-new itineraries to its portfolio in the past year alone.
