Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin AmaPrima AmaWaterways AmaWaterways is a family-owned luxury river cruise line boasting 29 modern, elegant ships sailing across the rivers of Europe , Asia , and Africa , from the Rhine to the Mekong, famed for its well-appointed ships boasting whirlpools, swim-up bars, indulgent spas, and 360-degree panoramic sundecks, as well as its gourmet fine dining as the first river cruise line inducted into La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs , the oldest culinary society in the world. I sat down with its co-founder and president, Rudi Schreiner , to look back at his early life, how he came to co-found AmaWaterways , and his thoughts on the future of river cruising. Rudi Schreiner AmaWaterways Having grown up in Vienna at the heart of the Danube , the homeland of river cruising, I wonder if that inspired him to work in the travel industry? “It wasn’t so much living in Vienna ; it was my first major trip driving all the way from Vienna to Spain and Portugal when both countries were still under dictatorship,” Rudi says.
In 1973, Rudi and his friends set off on an ‘ Austrian seeking Nepal expedition’ and received a scholarship from Austria’s Ministry of Education to research with the Limbus in Eastern Nepal . MORE FOR YOU Russian Troops Captured One Of Ukraine’s Dutch Armored Vehicles, Rode It Back Into Battle—And Promptly Got Killed Wear Solar Eclipse Glasses To Look At Aurora-Causing Sunspots This Weekend, Experts Say: Here�.