{"id":16669,"date":"2013-12-12T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/ponant-25-years-on-and-looking-toward-australia-asia-pacific-islands-and-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:08:00","slug":"ponant-25-years-on-and-looking-toward-australia-asia-pacific-islands-and-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/12\/ponant-25-years-on-and-looking-toward-australia-asia-pacific-islands-and-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponant 25 years on and looking toward Australia, Asia, Pacific islands and West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-r5IoMM5psdY\/UqoJWR_MBHI\/AAAAAAAAj20\/2Ktiryc7yt4\/s1600\/sauv.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-r5IoMM5psdY\/UqoJWR_MBHI\/AAAAAAAAj20\/2Ktiryc7yt4\/s320\/sauv.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Ponant CEO, Jean-Emmanuel Sauv\u00e9e<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>With 2013 revenue up 25% compared to last year, it has been another successful year for Compagnie du Ponant, ceo Jean-Emmanuel Sauv\u00e9e, told Seatrade Insider during a one-to-one interview in Paris this week.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the company has had an interesting and eventful journey, remarked Sauv\u00e9e &#8211; one of two co-founders of the French luxury line which he and Philippe Videau launched in Nantes in 1988, \u2018without a franc in our pockets\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>With a good business plan and long-term vision, the young sea captains managed to secure financing for the first vessel, the sleek, three-masted 64-passenger sailing ship Le Ponant, which launched in 1991, and is still in the fleet.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seatrade-insider.com\/news\/news-headlines\/sauvee-reflects-on-compagnie-du-ponants-first-25-years-and-where-to-next.html\"><br \/>Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ponant CEO, Jean-Emmanuel Sauv\u00e9e With 2013 revenue up 25% compared to last year, it has been another successful year for Compagnie du Ponant, ceo Jean-Emmanuel Sauv\u00e9e, told Seatrade Insider during a one-to-one interview in Paris this week. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the company has had an interesting and eventful journey, remarked Sauv\u00e9e &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponant-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}