Description
This book explores the theory, issues, impacts and management considerations surrounding the growing industry of cruise tourism. It begins by giving an overview of the cruise industry, followed by chapters focusing on the increasing demand for cruising. It presents case-studies of specific countries, including the Antarctic, Caribbean and Alaska before reviewing the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruise tourism. It concludes by exploring predictions for the future of the industry.
Chapter
2 A Geographical Overview of the World Cruise Market and its Seasonal Complementarities
3 The Cruise Industry: An Industrial Organization Perspective
4 Cruise Tourism and Organizational Culture: The Case for Occupational Communities
5 Cruise Sector Policy in a Tourism-dependent Island Destination: The Case of Bermuda
PART II: DEMAND: CRUISE PASSENGERS AND MARKETING
6 What Drives Cruise Passengers’ Perceptions of Value?
7 Cruising and the North American Market
8 When One Size Doesn’t Fit All
9 Ways of Seeing the Caribbean Cruise Product: A British Perspective
10 The Impact of Interpretation on Passengers of Expedition Cruises
11 Cruise Guide Star-rating Systems: A Need for Standardization
12 Sixteen Ways of Looking at an Ocean Cruise: A Cultural Studies Approach
PART III: SUPPLY: CRUISE DESTINATIONS AND PRODUCTS
13 Spatial and Evolutionary Characteristics of Baltic Sea Cruising: A Historic-geographical Overview
14 The Alaska Cruise Industry
15 The Cruise Industry and Atlantic Canada: A Case Study
16 The Changing Geography of Cruise Tourism in the Caribbean
17 Paradise and other Ports of Call: Cruising in the Pacific Islands
18 The Antarctic Cruise Industry
19 Round-the-world Cruising: A Geography Created by Geography?
20 The Norwegian Coastal Express: Moving Towards Cruise Tourism?
21 The Structure and Operation of Coastal Cruising: Australian Case Studies
22 Adventure Cruising: An Ethnography of Small Ship Travel
23 Off the Beaten Track: A Case Study of Expedition Cruise Ships in South-west Tasmania, Australia
PART IV: INTERACTIONS: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
24 Turning Water into Money: The Economics of the Cruise Industry
25 Cruising North to Alaska: The New ‘Gold Rush’
26 The Sources and Magnitude of the Economic Impact on a Local Economy from Cruise Activities: Evidence from Port Canaveral, Florida
27 Florida’s Day Cruise Industry: A Significant Contributor to Florida’s Economy?
28 Cruise Tourism in the Eastern Caribbean: An Anachronism in the Post-colonial Era?
29 Fantasy and Reality: Tourist and Local Experiences of Cruise Ship Tourism in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
30 A Shifting Tide: Environmental Challenges and Cruise Industry Responses
31 Environmental Policy Challenges for the Cruise Industry: Case Studies from Australia and the USA
32 Cozumel: The Challenges of Cruise Tourism
33 Cruise Ships in the UK and North European Market: Development Opportunity or Illusion for UK Ports?
34 Troubled Seas: Social Activism and the Cruise Industry
35 The Disneyization of Cruise Travel
36 Cruise Tourism: A Paradigmatic Case of Globalization?
37 Cruises, Supranationalism and Border Complexities
38 Looking Ahead: The Future of Cruising
Cruise Ship Tourism
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