Sustainability in Cruise Ship Management

Ruhet Genc

International Journal of Social Science Studies, 2016, vol. 4, issue 6, 76-83

Abstract: Cruise tourism flourished and became more popular within last decades with the help of technological advancements in shipping industry and classification of tourism branches in general. Cruise-ships help to solve the need for leisure and the need for place to economic business as well as academic gatherings. While it is expanding rapidly, so the concern about the impact of cruise tourism on the environment in general, port economies & their sociocultural atmosphere. Any activities whether it is touristic or daily can be specified under the heading of sustainable or non-sustainable. It all depends if we design activities with respect to the future generations or just live from day to day. The research question is how to design sustainable tourism in general and cruise-ship tourism in particular. Food printing compared to environmental loads of cruise tourism and pollution management will be analyzed. The carrying capacity and its current direction will be studied. After discussing about basic terms, some case studies will be given to picture the problematic of cruise-ship tourism. Later on some comparable solutions will be discussed. Towards to the end some suggestions will be given to make the world livable in the future even there is cruise-ship industry¡¯s rapid development.

Keywords: Sustainable Tourism; Cruise-Ship Tourism; Port Economies; Environmental & Sociocultural Effects; Pollution Management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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