Cruiseport Boston Sets Passenger Record; Honors Boston CVB CEO Pat Moscaritolo

On Friday, November 9, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), Boston elected officials, and local community members celebrated Flynn Cruiseport Boston’s record-breaking 2018 cruise season and recognized Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (GBCVB) President & CEO Pat Moscaritolo for his contributions to growing Boston’s cruise industry.

Release time : 2018-11-16 11:05:48

source : Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau

On Friday, November 9, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), Boston elected officials, and local community members celebrated Flynn Cruiseport Boston’s record-breaking 2018 cruise season and recognized Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (GBCVB) President & CEO Pat Moscaritolo for his contributions to growing Boston’s cruise industry. Flynn Cruiseport Boston welcomed a record 390,696 visitors to Boston in 2018. During the ceremony, Massport announced that the recently refurbished mezzanine level of the Cruiseport terminal, which is the gateway through which cruise passengers are welcomed to Boston, will be renamed the “Moscaritolo Mezzanine.”

Massport and elected officials recognized Moscaritolo for his extraordinary efforts in promoting Boston and New England as he prepares to leave the organization in February 2019. “Pat, time and time again, has been an advocate and a successful supporter of the blue-collar job sector in Boston. Hotel workers, longshoremen, waiters, chefs, bartenders, valets, and the list goes on,” said State Senator Nick Collins. Since 1991 Moscaritolo has been CEO of the GBCVB, the primary marketing and visitor service organization that develops convention and tourism business for Greater Boston while representing more than 1,200 businesses throughout New England. Prior to joining the GBCVB, Moscaritolo served as the Deputy Executive Director of Massport and as the Director of Logan Airport. During his tenure, Logan Airport won national awards for its “Airports Are for People, Too” customer service initiatives.

Massport CEO Tom Glynn and Massport Port Director Lisa Weiland celebrated the record-breaking season while praising the work that Moscaritolo has done to position Boston as a world-class cruise destination. “Boston continues to draw more cruise passengers as both a port of call and a starting point for longer journeys to Canada, the Caribbean and beyond, and