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This book takes the reader a tour of the cruise industry, particularly in the Caribbean, exploring its history and growth. It explores the relative costs and benefits of cruise tourism and the fundamental economic, political, and environmental dilemmas for the industry.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,9, University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This thesis outlines the impacts of cruise tourism on the Caribbean islands and looks closer on the relationship between cruise lines and the ports of call in the Caribbean.

This book explores the lessons learned from half a century of Caribbean cruise tourism; one of the most popular and profitable sectors of the tourism industry. The modern-day cruise industry dates from the 1960s when the three major cruise lines, Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian, set up shop in Florida

This volume highlights the central issues of tourism development in the Caribbean. In the process it provides a range of theoretical frameworks, methodological tools and case-studies from which future directions in management and development might be based.

This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region’s economy, politics or environment. With case studies from Europe, America, Asia