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Top 25 River cruise operators based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 180 river cruise operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,685 professional contacts across them, including 2,427 with verified work emails. Miami is the largest hub.
This list covers river cruise operators headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest river cruise operators based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,063 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We believe the most important thing you can take on a cruise is time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,023 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Join a dynamic and fast-growing company that's making waves in the cruise industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 737 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Collette, we’ve been guided travel experts for nearly 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 675 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AmaWaterways invites guests on immersive river journeys across Europe, Asia, Africa including Egypt and South America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “City Cruises, part of the Hornblower Group, is a leading global provider of unforgettable dining, sightseeing, charters and private events, live experiences, and essential ferry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 598 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gate 1 Travel offers escorted tours, European river cruises, independent vacations and customized international vacation packages for less.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 585 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For nearly a century, the Globus family of brands has been crafting award-winning tours and river cruises for travel enthusiasts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “City Experiences, part of the Hornblower Group, is a global leader in creating amazing water and land experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 361 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Entertainment Cruises believes in the power of a moment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At American Queen Voyages™, we firmly believe that our employees drive the ongoing success of our company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vantage is a Deluxe expedition cruise, small ship ocean cruise, river cruise, and land adventure travel company serving travelers and travel agents since its founding by Henry R.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mayflower Cruises & Tours, LLC, is a division of the Scenic Group, located in Lisle, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alcatraz Cruises is now known as City Cruises, part of City Experiences which is the new brand name representing Hornblower Group's portfolio of water- and land-based experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Statue Cruises is now known as Statue City Cruises, part of City Experiences which is the new brand name representing Hornblower Group's portfolio of water- and land-based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Holiday Vacations, we believe that life is short, and bucket lists are long.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A symbol of Pittsburgh's river renaissance, the Gateway Clipper Fleet has grown from a one boat, 100 passenger operation to the five boat, 1500 passenger fleet of today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The story of Xanterra Travel Collection begins in 1876 when talented visionary Fred Harvey struck a deal with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad to open restaurants (and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VIKING CRUISE & TRAVEL, LLC is a leisure, travel & tourism company based out of United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Waterways Cruises and Events is proud to celebrate 30 years of providing their guests with high quality dining and event experiences on the water.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “StarLite Cruises, a diverse line of passenger vessels, is an enterprise with five vessels that cruise the intracoastal waterways of coastal Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Transcend Cruises is the only luxury charter operator in the increasingly sought after European river cruise market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GET is your travel agency of choice for stress-free, affordable vacation planning, with everything arranged for you, not by you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blount Small Ship Adventures, the original small ship adventure cruise-line, with over 50 years of experience in small ship cruising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edelweiss Cruises is Milwaukee's premier cruise company featuring the largest fleet variety in the area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: river cruise operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names river cruise operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of river cruise operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name river cruise operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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River cruise operators based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 180 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among river cruise operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “river cruise operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names river cruise operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among river cruise operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,427 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names river cruise operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many river cruise operators are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 180 river cruise operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Azamara Cruises, headquartered in Coconut Grove, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most river cruise operators?
Miami leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by New York (6) and Fort Lauderdale (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,427 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 180 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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