The Impact of Cruise Ship Passengers in Maine: The Example of Bar Harbor

Todd Gabe, Colleen Lynch and James Mcconnon

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Maine’s expanding cruise ship industry can provide local economic benefits and add to the state’s already large tourism economy. The authors describe results of a survey they conducted among passengers from eight ship visits to Bar Harbor, a town that has emerged as a popular port-of-call on New England summer and autumn cruises. They found that cruise ship passengers have higher household incomes and spend substantially more per day than the typical Maine tourist. They make several suggestions for how ports can maximize the benefits from cruise ship passengers. These include using cruise ship visits to extend the local tourism season; converting “non-spending” passengers to “spenders”; implementing strategies to encourage and track return visits by passengers; and developing management plans to direct the flow of passengers through town.

Keywords: cruise ship passengers; economic impact; Maine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in Maine Policy Review 3.12(2003): pp. 56-63

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/68290/1/MPRA_paper_68290.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:68290

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter (winter@lmu.de).