Environmental Sustainability and the Future of the Cruise Tourism
Cruise tourism is one of the growing segments in international tourism industry. Previous research have studied the economic and cultural impacts of tourism industry throughout the world, especially the major cruise tourism areas including the countries in Caribbean region, which accounts for the 50...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cukurova University
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | http://dergipark.gov.tr/cuiibfd/issue/34948/429527?publisher=cu |
| Summary: | Cruise tourism is one of the growing segments in
international tourism industry. Previous research have studied the economic and
cultural impacts of tourism industry throughout the world, especially the major
cruise tourism areas including the countries in Caribbean region, which
accounts for the 50% of total world capacity placement (Dwyer & Forsyth,
1998), such as Costa Rica (Brida & Zapata, 2010), Jamaica (Chase &
McKee, 2003), as well as Europe (Dragin, Jovičći & Bošković, 2010) and
Australia (Dwyer & Forsyth, 1996). Historically, cruise tourism has
developed in a commercial sense from the early 1880s in Pacific region by tour
offerings of shipping companies for leisure tour which are irrelevant from
their regular trade routes (Steel, 2016).
On the other hand, studies related to sustainability of cruise tourism
on the basis of environmental considerations have been limited to first-order
effects on the ecosystem, but the second phase of the research linking these
impacts to tourism does not exist (Moreno & Amelung, 2009).
There are numerous impacts of cruise tourism on
environmental degradation. As Uebersax (1996) describes, a complex downside to the
cruise industry includes pollution of sea floors, harbors and coastal areas;
degradation of scarce water resources; destruction of coral reef habitat;
public health concerns ashore; and pressures resulting from waste disposal
problems for communities that are already unable to deal with their own
domestic commercial municipal waste. Yet, no further research has been done to
explain the impacts of these environmental problems created by cruise tourism
on the future of cruise tourism itself.
In this manuscript, it has been aimed to focus on the
environmental degradation with respect to cruise tourism industry and the
results of this environmental degradation on the future of cruise tourism. It
will start with introducing possible threats of cruise industry to the
environmental sustainability and then it will move to discuss the real-world
reflections of these threats to the future of cruise tourism and tourist
preferences. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-3747 2636-8889 |