Ugo is Senior Director, Deployment and Itinerary Planning at Carnival Cruise Line, where he has driven itinerary strategy for nearly two decades since joining in 2007.
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He owns the end-to-end deployment strategy — itinerary optimization, capacity management, and asset marketability across global markets — translating decisions into demand, guest satisfaction, and bottom-line performance. He is Carnival Fleet Deployment and Itinerary Planning team’s principal liaison to industry associations and port and destination authorities worldwide, and the metrics framework he built now anchors the company’s deployment planning function. Ugo holds a Bachelor’s in Advanced Economics and Marketing from Università degli Studi “Federico II” (Naples), a specialization in Travel Marketing from SDA Bocconi (Milan), and an MBA in Strategic Marketing from Florida International University (Miami).