Variety Cruises was established in 2006 with the merge of Zeus Group Maritime S.A and Hellas Yachts Group. Zeus Group has evolved from Zeus Tours, a company founded in 1949 by the Greek tourism visionary and pioneer Diogenis Venetopoulos, as an incoming Travel Agency and developed throughout the years among Greece’s leading travel companies. As of 1968 the company enters the small ships scheduled cruises niche market by chartering the yacht ELEFTHERIOS and in 1973 launches the owned reconstructed wooden cargo vessel NIKI, offering 18 cabins with sharing facilities. Variety Cruises runs a fleet of eight small cruise ships, in addition to owning and renting a fleet of 4 private yachts. The company's flagship is the Variety Voyager, followed by the Galileo, the Panorama, Panorama II, the Harmony V, the Harmony G, the Pegasos, and the Callisto. The company also owns a fleet of smaller yachts solely available for charter including the Obsession, the Absolute King, Christiane, and the Monte Carlo.