Growth of Cruise Tourism in Australia

Running head: GROWTH OF CRUISE TOURISM IN AUSTRALIA
Growth of Cruise Tourism in Australia
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Cruising in Australia..................................................................................................................2
Destinations and patterns of cruising in Australian market...................................................6
Passenger demographics in Australian cruising industry.......................................................7
Reasons behind development of cruise industry in Australia..............................................10
Growth of Cruising industry in Western Australia..................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The tourism industry, in the contemporary global framework, has developed profusely
and extensively worldwide, much of which can be attributed to phenomena like
Globalization, Liberalizations and technological as well as infrastructural innovations, which
on one hand have contributed to greater economic well being of a considerable section of
global population, which is not confined to developed countries only and on other hand has
made travelling domestically as well as internationally more convenient (Holland, 2018).
This in turn has resulted in the rapid development of the tourism industry, thereby making the
same one of the largest industry in the global framework.
The tourism industry has diversified and developed various genres in its domain,
catering to the increasing demands and dynamics in the preference patterns of the customers
across the globe. One of the newest forms of tourism, in this context, has been the cruise
tourism (Rodrigue & Notteboom, 2013). Although traveling by water has remained as one of
the primitive forms of overseas travelling, however the concept of tourism and holidaying by
cruise has been developing in the recent periods and the cruise tourism is developing as one
of the fastest growing aspects of the already expanding tourism industry (Hadad et al., 2012).
Keeping the fast growth of cruising as a form of tourism and the continually
increasing global demand for the same into consideration, the concerned report tries to
examine and analyse the growth of the cruising industry and cruise tourism in one of the
dominant and most developed countries in the global framework, Australia, thereby
emphasizing on especially the growth of the same in the Western Australian region over the
last few years.

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Cruising in Australia
Cruising as an important component of the tourism industry has been developing
immensely in the contemporary period, in the global scenario as can be seen from the rising
number of cruise passengers in the world across the world, as can be seen from the following
figure:
Figure 1: Increase in the number of global passengers in the cruise tourism
(Source: Cliaasia.org, 2018)
The impressive growth trend in the global cruising industry can be considerably
attributed to the immense growth of the demand as well as supply of cruising services,
primarily in the developed countries, Australia being one of such countries (Weaver & Duval,
2014). This can be shown with the help of the following figure: