Weisenburger Joins Carnival Corporation & plc Boards of Directors

MIAMI, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Carnival Corporation & plc
(NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced today that Randall J. Weisenburger,
executive vice president and chief financial officer for Omnicom Group Inc.,
the world’s leading advertising, marketing and corporate communications
company, has been appointed to its boards of directors.

Weisenburger, 50, will serve in a non-executive capacity on Carnival
Corporation & Carnival plc’s 14-member boards, effective immediately. He will
also serve on the audit committees of each of the boards of directors.

Since joining New York-based Omnicom in 1998, Weisenburger has played a
key role in the continued expansion and success of the company, which
encompasses more than 1,500 agencies in 100-plus countries. Prior to joining
Omnicom, Weisenburger was a founding member of Wasserstein Perella & Co. and
in 1993 became the president and chief executive officer of the firm’s private
equity investment unit, Wasserstein & Co.

Weisenburger is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania and established the Wharton-Omnicom Communications Fellows
Program, which trains students to serve as communications mentors to their
peers.

“Randall is an excellent addition to our company’s boards, possessing
extensive experience in all areas of finance, as well as a strong background
in advertising and marketing. We look forward to his valuable input and
guidance in the continued operation of our company,” said Micky Arison,
Carnival Corporation & plc chairman and CEO.

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise vacation group in the
world, with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe and
Australia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess
Cruises, The Yachts of Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line,
Ibero Cruises, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia.

Together, these brands operate 88 ships totaling more than 169,000 lower
berths with 17 new ships scheduled to be delivered between March 2009 and June
2012. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Tours and
Princess Tours, the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.
Traded on both the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation &
plc is the only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and the
FTSE 100 indices.

SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc