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Title Cruise ship tourism / edited by Ross K. Dowling
Published Wallingford : CABI, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 441 pages)
Series CAB books
CAB books
Contents The cruising industry / Ross K. Dowling -- A geographical overview of the world cruise market and its seasonal complementarities / Jacques J. Charlier and Robert J. McCalla -- The cruise industry : an industrial organization perspective / Andreas Papatheodorou -- Cruise tourism and organizational culture : the case for occupational communities / Darren Lee-Ross -- Cruise sector policy in a tourism-dependent island destination : the case of Bermuda / Victor B. Teye -- What drives cruise passengers' perceptions of value? / James F. Petrick and Xiang Li (Robert) -- Cruising and the North American market / Allan R. Miller and William F. Grazer -- When one size doesn't fit all / Chris Fanning and Jane James -- Ways of seeing the Caribbean cruise product : a British perspective / Clare Weeden and Jo-Anne Lester -- The impact of interpretation on passengers of expedition cruises / Kaye Walker and Gianna Moscardo -- Cruise guide star-rating systems : a need for standardization / Reg A. Swain -- Sixteen ways of looking at an ocean cruise : a cultural studies approach / Arthur A. Berger -- Spatial and evolutionary characteristics of Baltic Sea cruising : a historic-geographical overview / Jan O. Lundgren -- The Alaska cruise industry / John M. Munro and Warren G. Gill -- The cruise industry and Atlantic Canada : a case study / Nancy Chesworth -- The changing geography of cruise tourism in the Caribbean / Paul F. Wilkinson -- Paradise and other ports of call : cruising in the Pacific Islands / Ngaire Douglas and Norman Douglas -- The Antarctic cruise industry / Thomas Bauer and Ross K. Dowling -- Round-the-world cruising : a geography created by geography? / Robert J. McCalla and Jacques J. Charlier -- The Norwegian Coastal Express : moving towards cruise tourism? / Ola Sletvold -- The structure and operation of coastal cruising : Australian case studies / Sacha Reid and Bruce Prideaux -- Adventure cruising : an ethnography of small ship travel / Valene L. Smith -- Off the beaten track : a case study of expedition cruise ships in South-west Tasmania, Australia / Claire Ellis and Lorne K. Kriwoken -- Turning water into money : the economics of the cruise industry / Ross A. Klein -- Cruising north to Alaska : the new "gold rush" / Greg Ringer -- The sources and magnitude of the economic impact on a local economy from cruise activities : evidence from Port Canaveral, Florida / Bradley M. Braun and Fred Tramell -- Florida's day cruise industry : a significant contributor to Florida's economy? / Lori Pennington-Gray -- Cruise tourism in the Eastern Caribbean : an anachronism in the post-colonial era? / Lydia M. Pulsipher and Lindsey C. Holderfield -- Fantasy and reality : tourist and local experiences of cruise ship tourism in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico / Lynnaire Sheridan and Gregory Teal -- A shifting tide : environmental challenges and cruise industry responses / James E.N. Sweeting and Scott L. Wayne -- Environmental policy challenges for the cruise industry : case studies from Australia and the USA / Suzanne Dobson and Alison Gill -- Cozumel : the challenges of cruise tourism / Helle Sorensen -- Cruise ships in the UK and North European market : development opportunity or illusion for UK ports? / Derek Robbins -- Troubled seas : social activism and the cruise industry / Ross A. Klein -- The Disneyization of cruise travel / Adam Weaver -- Cruise tourism : a paradigmatic case of globalization? / Robert E. Wood -- Cruises, supranationalism and border complexities / Dallen J. Timothy -- Looking ahead : the future of cruising / Ross K. Dowling
Summary Explores the theory, issues, impacts and management considerations surrounding the industry of cruise tourism. This book gives an overview of the cruise industry, and presents case-studies of specific countries, including Antarctica, the Caribbean and Alaska. It also reviews the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruise tourism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ocean travel.
Cruise lines.
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
Cruises.
Demand.
Destinations.
Economic impact.
Environmental impact.
Social impact.
Tourism.
Tourism policy.
Tourist industry.
Cruise lines
Ocean travel
Form Electronic book
Author Dowling, Ross K
ISBN 1845930495
9781845930493
9786610736225
6610736227
9781280736223
1280736224