John Cook ~ Shore Excursion Product Manager

John Cook began his career with Holland America Line’s Transportation Department as a Division Manager in Skagway, Alaska and later moved to the same position in Ketchikan. In 1990, when the company bought Gray Line of Phoenix John left the chilly north for the sweltering southwest, where he was General Manager of Gray Line of Phoenix for two years. Next John saw the world as a Shore Excursion Manager working onboard Holland America Line ships, which included four Grand World Voyages and in 1996 he moved ashore to the Seattle Corporate Office. In his more than 25 years with the company he has witnessed remarkable growth and on any given day, about 18,000 passengers are on Holland America Line’s 13 ships with 6,000 on shore excursions in the over 300 ports Holland America Line visits each year. John is directly responsible for The Caribbean Program, The Panama Canal Program, The Canada/New England Program and the the Baltic and Scandinavia Program.