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Is primarily a leisure vacation experience, with the ship’s staff doing all the work
Cruise
This excludes traveling by water for purely business purposes sailing to one’s own small pleasure craft, or travel on a vessel for primarily transportational purposes
Cruise
is a vacation by ship
Cruise
during his sailing he compiled a list of the most interesting manmade things he saw (The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World)
Herodotus
he traveled aboard just to experience the far flung ports
Herodotus
The Arrival of Leisure Sailing
1800s
In this year, shipping companies rediscovered that they could increase their profits by booking passengers aboard their merchant ships.
1800s
Technology helped make it possible, as wooden ships with sails were replaced by steel-hulled vessels that were driven by coal, oil and steam-not wind
STEAMSHIP
primarily purposes was to transport people but not cargo
STEAMSHIP
The Steamship era began in
1840
He pioneered the first translantic-scheduled liner trips .
SIR SAMUEL CUNARD
World War I- most ocean - crossing vessels were converted into
troop transport ships
became the most important goal
Speed
was awarded regularly to whichever ship could cross the North Atlantic in the least amount of time .
BLUE RIBAND
is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel market .
cruise industry
CLIA mean
Cruise Line International association
with the vessel leaving from and returning to at the same port .
Round Trip or circle itinerary
a ship could sail from Vancouver, head northward through the Alaskan Inside Passage, turn back at say, Skagway and return to Vancouver
Round Trip or circle itinerary
A ship could leave Vancouver, but finish its trip to Anchorage
One way itinerary
The cruise starts at one port, but finishes at another
One way itinerary
when an air itinerary features a return from a different city than the one first flown to.
Open jaw itinerary
During the cruise, passengers experience a wealth of onboard activities example : meals, shows, contests, lounging at the pool, which takes place primarily on
at sea days
usually the ship docks early in the morning and leaves in the early evening, passengers have the option of going ashore or staying on the ship .)
ON PORT DAYS
usually join the round-the-world cruises.
The elderly
take cruises of seven days or less
Older people
prefer the 3 -7 day cruising
Younger people
which have windows) are generally more expensive
Outside Staterooms
generally without windows
inside or staterooms
on a given ship are usually more expensive than smaller ones
Large staterooms
with balconies generally cost more than those without .
Staterooms