Celebrity Cruises was founded in April 1988 as a subsidiary of the Greece-based Chandris Group to operate upmarket cruise ships to Bermuda. Chandris had been involved in cruise traffic since the 1960s, and during the late 1980s the company operated in the United States market under the brand name Chandris Cruises. Chandris Fantasy Cruises targeted the lower end of the cruise passenger market, with fleets consisting of second-hand ocean liners. Celebrity Cruises came into existence when, in April 1988, Home Lines, at the time one of the world’s leading premium cruise lines, was sold to Holland America Line. Home Lines’ ships had held two of the five contracts offered by the Government of Bermuda to cruise lines, giving the ships priority berthing arrangement and unlimited access of sail to the islands in exchange for the ships sailing to Bermuda between April and October each year.

Genting Dream is a cruise ship for Dream Cruises. She was previously ordered as Genting World for Star Cruises. The ship is designed for the Asian cruise market and has a large number of restaurants, a casino and specially designed cabins, based by Norwegian Breakaway class. The Genting Dream has a length of 335.33 metres (1,100 ft 2 in), a width of 39.7 metres (130 ft), a size of 150,695 GT, and a top speed of over 23 knots. The delivery was scheduled for autumn of 2016. The construction of Genting Dream, the first ship of the premium cruise brand, Dream Cruises, was completed on October 12, 2016, and the vessel started sailing from Papenburg, Germany the next day. Throwing light on the ship, Thatcher Brown, President of Dream Cruises said, “Genting Dream will make a stopover in Mumbai on October 29 at 7am, and depart at 5pm. She will reach Colombo on October 31; from thereon she will reach Singapore on November 4.