Cruise ship tourism /
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| Imprint: | Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2006. |
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| Description: | xxii, 441 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6234894 |
Table of Contents:
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. The Cruising Industry
- 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
- Part V. Industry Issues
- 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
- Index