The Cruise Industry: Development, Trends, and Environmental Impact

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the cruise industry, examining its current development and trends, with a specific focus on the UK cruise market. It compares and contrasts the main stakeholders and cruise operators, highlighting key ports and their significance. The report also details the range of hospitality products available on cruise ships, including guest rooms, restaurants, and leisure activities. Furthermore, it evaluates the environmental impact of cruising on geographical areas, particularly coastal regions, considering factors like pollution and ecosystem damage. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of sustainable practices within the cruise industry to mitigate negative impacts.

CRUISE INDUSTRY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
a) Current development of Cruise industry............................................................................1
b) Explanation of trends in UK cruise market........................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
Compare and contrast main stakeholders and cruise operators in cruise industry ................1
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
a) Range of hospitality products available on cruise ships.....................................................1
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
Environmental impact of cruising on geographical areas......................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Current assignment is based on cruise industry. Report will discuss current development
and trends in this sector. Furthermore, stakeholders of cruise industry will be compared in this
study. In addition, range of hospitality products available on cruise ships will be explained.
Along with this, environmental impact of cruising on geographical areas will be evaluated in this
assignment.
TASK 1
a) Current development of Cruise industry
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b) Explanation of trends in UK cruise market
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TASK 2
Compare and contrast main stakeholders and cruise operators in cruise industry
London and England are two main cruise areas where cruise industry work tremendously.
DP world London Gateway is the famous port which is known as state of art deep sea port. It
offers logistic parks, it has fats supply chain solution but it has unmatched connectivity to
market. It brings the biggest ships back to London and it is closure to the Western European
market. Port of Newhaven is another major port in the cruise area England. It is important south
coast harbour which has cross channel connections. Newhaven port and properties limited is the
main authority of the port which is responsible for its ongoing management. Port of calls of
Newhaven are Windcat, Speculate, Commander, Sospan Dau, Windcat 17 (Arrivals &
Departures in the Port of NEWHAVEN, 2017). Southampton, AL1, AL2, AL3, AL 4, AL 5 are
five port of calls of DP world London Gateway (DP World secures all UK port calls for THE
Alliance (DP World secures all UK port calls for THE Alliance, 2017).
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TASK 3
a) Range of hospitality products available on cruise ships
Cruise industry offers variety of products and services to its passengers. That is the main reason
of its growth because people are getting satisfactory services and they are feeling happy from
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cruise company's hospitality services and products (WHO WE ARE, 2017). Hospitality products
available on cruise ships are as following:
Guest room, Meeting rooms:
Cruise offers luxurious rooms to its passengers.
Earlier there were not that much advance
facilities were available in cruise. But with the
development and growth in this industry now
cruise ships are able to offer luxurious guest
rooms, meeting rooms to their valuable
travellers. It makes them happy and make them
satisfied towards the ship (The Cruise Industry,
2017). Guest rooms of the cruise are very
luxurious. It can be grade as excellent. Meeting
rooms are also good and big. These meeting
rooms have availability of projector, WiFi,
table, chairs, computers etc. These can be
categorized as excellent.
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Multiple themed restaurant:
It is another hospitality service or product
which is available in cruise ships. They offer
multiple themed restaurants where passengers
can get their likely food. In this restaurant all
types of food and drinks are available. That
makes them happy and they feel satisfied
towards the cruise ships. It makes their journey
more interesting and memorable because they
can experience luxurious food in middle of the
ocean. People can get fine dinner, fast food,
buffet at affordable prices.
Cruise also has multiple themed restaurant
which are excellent. It offers quality products
to the cruise customers.
Free WiFi and cell phone access:
It is another hospitality products which is
available in the cruise ships. They offer free
WiFi services to their consumers so that they
can complete their work without any issue
(Watch, 2015). This product of the cruise is
average good because some times network
create problem in middle of the way.
b) Compare and contrast different types of leisure provision available in Cruise
There are different types of leisure provision are available in the cruise. These are as
below maintained:
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Health Spas:
It is another facility offer by cruise, passenger
can enjoy gym and spa facilities in the cruise
ship (Satta and et.al, 2016). It also provides
health club and expensive spa products to its
stakeholders. Excellent grading can be given
to its healthy club products.
Casinos:
It is another leisure provision available in the
cruise. It is different from health clubs. The
major different in health club and casinos is
that in spa people get luxurious facilities and
they can exercise easily. On other hand on
board casinos are available in the cruise but it
is not available in every cruise. Disney cruise
line is the biggest ship but it does not have
casino in its ship. In casinos there are all types
of machines, penny slots that makes the person
feel more satisfactory. There are huge number
of stakes tables and poker, blackjack, slot
tournaments facilities are available in casinos.
It is exclusive in grading.
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Pools:
All luxurious cruise have one pool, It is on the
topmost deck. There are one or more hot tube,
plus showers and longer chairs. But these
pools are no deeper than 5 or 6 feet. These
pools are covered and indoor pool facilities are
available in the cruise. Partially accessibility of
pool are here in the cruise.
Sport leisure activities:
In cruise thee are facilities of mini golf, ping
pong, Jogging track, shuffle board, bocce ball
court etc. sport activities are available in this
cruise. One of the best and unique onboard
activity is availability of flow rider surf park.
Cinemas:
Onboard entertainment facilities are available
in the cruise. Live music, cruise shows are
shown on this entertainment medium. These
are very exclusive.
TASK 4
Environmental impact of cruising on Deal, Kent and Whitby, North Yorkshire
Cruising impact on the geographical areas to great extent. Coastal areas are such high
biodiversities transnational areas which are situated between land and seas. These areas are
surrounded by richest ecosystem. Many people live near this areas, due to cruising such
geographical areas get negatively affected. Cruising impact on their eco-system due to which
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pollution get increased. Cruising increases pressure on natural resources due to which supply of
food, energy gets affected. It physically damage marine ecosystem. Due to which loss of
biodiversity type of situation gets arise (Liu, Pennington-Gray and Krieger, 2016).
Coastal areas are much more affected by the cruise industry. Deal, Kent is the most
famous geographical area which gets affected due to cruise industry activities. It is seaside
location, due to cruise industry environment of the location gets negatively affected and it
destroys its eco-system.
Deal, Kent is located sear to ocean so due to activities of cruise water gets polluted and it
also increases air pollution in the atmospheres. That is the main reason due to which environment
of the place is getting badly affected. Cruise ships increase wastes, cruise industry have different
environment regulations. As size of cruise increase then it increases pollution in the
environment. It enhances burden of surrounding and people who live near to this location fail to
survive in such environment. White, North Yorkshire is the beautiful bits, there are many
cobbled streets and beaches. When cruise pass from near to this destination then ways and water
flow affect the lands and sometimes it spoils soil as well. By this way particular location have to
face environmental issues.
Apart from this cruising impact on the environmental through degradation or irrigation of
lands. Spillage and illegal dumping of wastage increase toxic substances and organic material in
sea due to which sensitive areas gets affected badly. In addition, cruising also affect local culture
to great extent. As demand of cursing is increasing so craft-man have to make changes in their
product's designing. It creates situation of culture erosion. That also increase chances of
economic inequality which due to which culture clashes situation gets arise (Bonilla-Priego and
et.al, 2014). This is the situation due to which local people are losing their cultural authenticity.
Commercialization has spoiled tradition of the geographical areas.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that cruise industry is growing well. It
contributes well in the development of economy condition of the nation. But due to increasing
cruising activities geographical locations are getting affected. Cruise ships lines are required to
take action to minimize negative impact of cruising on these near places.
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REFERENCES
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Liu, B., Pennington-Gray, L. and Krieger, J., 2016. Tourism crisis management: Can the
Extended Parallel Process Model be used to understand crisis responses in the cruise
industry?. Tourism Management. 55. pp.310-321.
Satta, G. and et.al., 2016. Motivation-based segmentation in the cruise industry: An exploratory
study. International Journal of Transport Economics. 43(1-2).
Watch, C. M., 2015. Cruise Industry Statistics.
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