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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,280 Views
22 Pages

Cruise shipping has been extremely popular in recent years, and one of the fastest-growing areas has been the Mediterranean. In the paper, we examine the evaluation of possible competitive–cooperative relationships among Mediterranean cruise po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,525 Views
20 Pages

19 November 2021

In recent years, cruise tourism has increased the negative effects caused by touristification in many European port cities. Despite this, these cities are in a great competition to be a destination, a tourist-port. Cruise tourism has come to stay, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,770 Views
17 Pages

Port Strategy to Minimise COVID-19 Risk in Cruise Ports: Application to the Port of Arrecife in Lanzarote

  • Alberto Camarero Orive,
  • Nicoletta González-Cancelas and
  • Noelia Avilés López

14 December 2022

The main objective of this article is to develop a methodology to detect, assess and prevent biosecurity-related risks. Currently, the main risk found in our daily life is COVID-19, which has triggered a serious global pandemic. As a result, economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,224 Views
23 Pages

31 March 2022

When it comes to analyzing cruise port performance, port operators have a challenging task because there are no widely accepted or well-known procedures for evaluating cruise port performance. Any performance measures used by port authorities are rou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
13,701 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2019

This article argues that the cruise terminal ports play a crucial role in the economic and socio-cultural sustainability of destinations, bridging the onshore tourism offered among cruise companies, global operators, and local business and infrastruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,075 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2024

The level of expenditure by cruise passengers in the various cities visited during their journey is a crucial variable for the key stakeholders involved in this industry. Promoting higher spending by cruise passengers in non-overnight stay ports is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,824 Views
11 Pages

Impact of Cruise Activity on Freshwater Use in the Port of Palma (Mallorca, Spain)

  • Celso Garcia,
  • Christian Mestre-Runge,
  • Enrique Morán-Tejeda,
  • Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz and
  • Dolores Tirado

11 April 2020

Lack of knowledge about freshwater use in ports of tourist destinations hinders accurate assessment of water availability and water planning. In this study, freshwater use in the Port of Palma (Spain) is analyzed by sector (commercial, mixed, navy an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,673 Views
12 Pages

Employing DEA for Assessment of Cruise Market: A Case Study in Malaga—Spanish Port

  • José Ignacio Parra Santiago,
  • Alberto Camarero Orive,
  • David Díaz Gutiérrez and
  • Francisco de Asís De Manuel López

22 November 2022

In recent decades, the Spanish port system has been investing in the development of infrastructures aimed at attracting the cruise market. For this reason, this paper analyses, using a methodology based on data envelopment analysis (DEA), the efficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,562 Views
15 Pages

Applying System-Oriented Sustainability Scoring for Cruise Traffic Port Operators: A Case Study of Geiranger, Norway

  • Børge Heggen Johansen,
  • Dina Margrethe Aspen,
  • Magnus Sparrevik and
  • Vilmar Æsøy

27 May 2021

Balancing the positive and negative impacts of cruise tourism is a challenging task for port operators. Necessary information for cruise port planning and decision making may be laborious to acquire and further combine for holistic decision support....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,528 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2020

Cruise tourism is an obviously global industry in different dimensions. From a geographical perspective, cruise ships are mobile and capable of being repositioned at a company’s notice, which forms the inherent basis for its global spatial layout. As...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,526 Views
21 Pages

Re-Starting the Cruise Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece: Assessing Effectiveness of Port Contingency Planning

  • Lemonia Anagnostopoulos,
  • Leonidas Kourentis,
  • Antonios Papadakis and
  • Varvara A. Mouchtouri

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks on board cruise ships early in the pandemic highlighted gaps worldwide in public health emergency contingency plans (PHECPs) for responding to unknown threats. To restart cruise operations in 2021 and respond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,868 Views
18 Pages

10 April 2020

Based on the support of governmental policies and the rapid growth of China’s economic development, residents’ living standards, and tourism consumption demand, cruise tourism has continuously developed and its service level has gradually...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,188 Views
21 Pages

Manoeuvrability of a Large Cruise Ship after Damage for Safe Return to Port

  • Tetsuhiro Yuura,
  • Hirotada Hashimoto and
  • Akihiko Matsuda

Free-running model tests were conducted using a scaled model of a large cruise ship with a damaged compartment, to investigate the effects of damage opening and floodwater on the manoeuvring performance in calm water and regular and irregular head wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,267 Views
18 Pages

Perceptions Environmental and Health Impacts of Cruise Activity in the Roatan Ports

  • Cintia Salgado-Gómez,
  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz,
  • Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda,
  • Nicolás Contreras-Barraza and
  • Lorena Araya-Silva

4 October 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of different stakeholders on the environmental impacts of cruise ship activity in the port of Roatan, Honduras, as an activity that has an impact on the region’s blue economy. A descriptive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,359 Views
24 Pages

The Mediterranean Sea has been consolidated as the second most important destination region in cruise shipping. This paper investigates the dynamics of the contemporary cruise port network in Southern Europe from the perspective of its centrality. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,425 Views
15 Pages

2 August 2022

In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the global cruise tourism market, global and regional cruise shipping networks have gradually formed and improved. Among them, the Caribbean cruise shipping network is particularly mature and complex,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,594 Views
16 Pages

Empirical Analysis of the Cruise Shipping Network in Asia

  • Maneerat Kanrak,
  • Yui-yip Lau,
  • Jingen Zhou,
  • Jiawei Ge and
  • Saksuriya Traiyarach

20 January 2023

The cruise shipping market has been growing dynamically in the past two decades. This study presented an empirical analysis of the Asian cruise shipping network (ACSN) in which the nodes are cruise ports and links are cruise routes connecting the por...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
11,923 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2017

The cruise ship industry has become a well-implemented industry in the Baltic Sea area, and each year, the number of cruise ship passengers rises steadily. Efficient waste management in cruising ports around the Baltic Sea is a crucial element in min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,220 Views
14 Pages

Cruise Passengers’ Intention and Sustainable Management of Cruise Destinations

  • Manuel Angel Fernández Gámez,
  • Jose Ramón Sánchez Serrano,
  • Angela Callejón Gil and
  • Ana José Cisneros Ruiz

1 April 2019

Recent tourism studies have shown that cruise passengers´ intention can be used as a tool to evaluate the sustainability of port of call destination. However, studies on this topic remain scarce and only offer an initial conceptualization of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,082 Views
14 Pages

Planning and Preparation for Cruising Infrastructure: Cuba as a Case Study

  • John E. Nyberg,
  • Shachak Pe’eri,
  • Susan L. Slocum,
  • Matthew Rice,
  • Maction Komwa and
  • Donglian Sun

9 March 2021

The cruise line industry (CLI) provides an opportunity to rapidly improve national (and regional) economies in destinations. However, lack of planning and proper preparation by destination authorities and the cruise industry can have significant impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,324 Views
15 Pages

13 March 2019

The sustainability of cruise tourism has been questioned in relation to its negative effects on ports of call, among which crowding has recently become more pronounced. However, an understanding of how crowdedness influences cruise tourists’ ex...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,311 Views
4 Pages

COVID-19, Travel Companion: The Spanish Experience on Cruise Ships

  • Iratxe Moreno Lorente,
  • Rocío Palmera Suarez,
  • Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez,
  • Miguel Dávila Cornejo,
  • Sergio Béjar Serrano,
  • Patricia López Pereira,
  • Inmaculada Vera Gil,
  • Concepción Sanchez Fernández,
  • Gloria González Díaz and
  • Fernando Carreras Vaquer
  • + 1 author

Spain is a country with an important flow of cruises in Europe. Since the restarting of cruise activity, 1,106 events with 12,134 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported from 21 ports. 72.3% of cases and 73.7% of events were registered in the Balea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,659 Views
13 Pages

1 November 2022

The analysis of cruise ships is focusing on port areas where they may represent a significant source of anthropogenic emissions. In order to determine the correlation between cruise ship activities (hoteling and maneuvering) in ports with the ambient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,858 Views
16 Pages

Port Governance and Cruise Tourism

  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz,
  • Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda,
  • Nicolás Contreras-Barraza and
  • Lorena Araya-Silva

27 April 2021

Cruise activities, until 2020, have presented a significant increase in revenue, as well as number of cruises and passengers transported, and it has become a challenge for ports to respond to this demand for services. In response to this, the world’s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,634 Views
5 Pages

Using the Intra-Action Review Methodology at European Level to Assess Effectiveness of Measures for Cruise Ship Operations in the COVID-19 Context

  • Lemonia Anagnostopoulos,
  • Leonidas Kourentis,
  • Miguel Dávila Cornejo,
  • Iratxe Moreno Lorente,
  • Mauro Dionisio,
  • Claudia Marotta,
  • Christos Hadjichristodoulou and
  • Varvara A. Mouchtouri

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union Joint Action HEALTHY GATEWAYS developed guidelines for cruise operators and authorities to restart operations and provide common COVID-19 public health preparedness and response standards. In F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,209 Views
11 Pages

31 March 2021

Passenger seaports are new starting-points of urban development. They form a new independent industry, become new incentives for improving urban infrastructure and increase the tourist attractiveness of the city itself and the region. In view of chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,538 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2021

This paper develops an improved failure risk assessment method and discusses the risk control measures for a large luxury cruise ship’s bilge system under fire accident conditions. The proposed method incorporates an expert weight calculation model a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,738 Views
3 Pages

Pilot Implementation of SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance on Cruise Ships Arriving at the Port of Piraeus from June to November 2021

  • Michalis Koureas,
  • Maria Kyritsi,
  • Alexandros Vontas,
  • Leonidas Kourentis,
  • Charalampos Vasileiou,
  • Varvara A. Mouchtouri and
  • Christos Hadjichristodoulou

This study evaluated the usefulness and validity of wastewater SARS-CοV-2 monitoring in passenger ships. Wastewater grab samples (n = 54) were collected from seven cruise ships arriving at the port of Piraeus from June to November 2021. Sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,614 Views
14 Pages

Fundamental Shifts of Cruise Shipping in the Post-COVID-19 Era

  • Yui-yip Lau,
  • Tsz Leung Yip and
  • Maneerat Kanrak

13 November 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously influenced cruise tourism and global businesses, which is a new variant that poses unpredictable issues for the cruise industry. This study investigates fundamental shifts in cruise shipping after the pandemic usin...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,712 Views
4 Pages

Mass Casualty Incident in the Port of Hamburg—Large-Scale Exercise during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Lena Ehlers,
  • Matthias Boldt,
  • Birgit Grassl,
  • Scarlett Kleine-Kampmann,
  • Elisabeth Hewelt,
  • Christina Stabenow,
  • Kea-Sophie Weber,
  • Jens de Boer,
  • Kristina Militzer and
  • Martin Dirksen-Fischer
  • + 5 authors

30 November 2022

Within the framework of the interdisciplinary research project ARMIHN (Adaptive Resilience Management in the Port) a two-day large-scale exercise took place in the Port of Hamburg in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the exercise could not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,850 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2021

Cruise ships are unfortunately at the infamous forefront of the means of maritime transport emitting the largest amounts of harmful substances into the atmosphere and aquatic environment. At the initiative of IMO and the European Union, formal restri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,829 Views
17 Pages

Clean Cruise Shipping: Experience from the BSR

  • Eunice O. Olaniyi,
  • Gunnar Prause,
  • Vera Gerasimova and
  • Tommi Inkinen

21 April 2022

The study calculates the costs of the environmental impact of cruise shipping to determine how and to what extent the cruise industry has evolved towards clean shipping in the Baltic Sea Region. While environmental regulations connect directly to emi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,970 Views
13 Pages

Cruise Travelers’ Service Perceptions: A Critical Content Analysis

  • Huseyin Arasli,
  • Mehmet Bahri Saydam and
  • Hasan Kilic

19 August 2020

This paper examines the main elements of online reviews left by popular cruise ships’ travelers. The eight most popular cruise ships were selected. We aimed to pinpoint the service quality experiential perceptions of cruise travelers regarding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,976 Views
27 Pages

27 February 2025

The essence of this work is to explore the potential of shore-side power as a sustainable and efficient solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger ships during their berthing periods in ports. Cruise ships—including both cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,744 Views
20 Pages

13 February 2024

This paper develops a methodology to estimate ship emissions using Automatic Identification System data (AIS). The methodology includes methods for AIS message decoding and ship emission estimation based on the ship’s technical and operational...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,599 Views
11 Pages

Review of Generated Waste from Cruisers: Dubrovnik, Split, and Zadar Port Case Studies

  • Merica Slišković,
  • Helena Ukić Boljat,
  • Igor Jelaska and
  • Gorana Jelić Mrčelić

9 November 2018

The amount of waste generated is becoming an increasing problem both in terms of inefficient use of resources and its harmful effects. Large quantities of waste originate from land, but a certain amount of waste is generated at sea, in which shipping...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,720 Views
12 Pages

20 October 2021

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak onboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess, both the flag State and the port State should act according to international obligations during the sailing stage, quarantine period after ships’ berthing, and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,818 Views
15 Pages

Maritime ports are critical logistics hubs that play an important role when preventing the transmission of COVID-19-imported infections from incoming international-going ships. This study introduces a data-driven method to dynamically model infection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,561 Views
54 Pages

27 October 2023

The Safe Return to Port issue regarding cruise ships has been extensively researched, covering aspects such as performance, operations, and electrical systems. However, an often overlooked aspect is the potential eruption of negative emotions among p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,054 Views
22 Pages

7 July 2022

The analysis of cruising trends in the Mediterranean regions shows that the Adriatic is the fastest growing cruise region in terms of the number of passenger movements and cruise ships’ port calls among all regions, particularly the central and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,841 Views
30 Pages

Safety of LNG-Fuelled Cruise Ships in Comparative Risk Assessment

  • Elvis Čapalija,
  • Peter Vidmar and
  • Marko Perkovič

2 October 2025

Although liquefied natural gas (LNG) is already widely used as a marine fuel, its use on large cruise ships is a relatively new development. By the end of 2024, twenty-four LNG-fuelled cruise ships were in operation, each carrying several thousand pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,830 Views
20 Pages

Forecast Analysis of Pollutant Emissions of Cruise Ship Routes in Western Mediterranean

  • Jerónimo Esteve-Pérez,
  • Manuel del Río-González and
  • José Enrique Gutiérrez-Romero

13 July 2023

The cruise shipping industry has a steadfast commitment to the environmentally sustainable operation of ships through many initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a forecast analysis of the emission inventory of NOx, SO2,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,618 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2023

Museums are main tourist resources for independent cruise passengers in cultural cruise destinations. However, their influence on cruise destinations is scarcely analyzed. The aim of this paper was to focus on two questions: What distribution of muse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,135 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2025

The port of Gaženica, managed by the Port Authority of Zadar, is open to public traffic of special economic interest to the Republic of Croatia. Situated outside Zadar’s city centre, with convenient access to the airport and A1 highway, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,881 Views
22 Pages

23 June 2023

Ship-to-shore connection is an important technological element that reduces air pollution in ports. Therefore, ports install facilities that allow mooring ships to connect to the port distribution network. By 2025, this will be mandatory for all port...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
25,295 Views
28 Pages

5 June 2022

Stable financial operation is the essential factor for the sustainable development of the cruise tourism industry. The cruise industry was one of the fastest growing before the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry is capital intensive, has an enormous sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,820 Views
22 Pages

Green Ports Analysis Using an End-to-End Tool Application in the Fishing Port of Vigo

  • Eduardo Ramos Velasco,
  • Nicoletta González-Cancelas,
  • Alberto Camarero Orive and
  • David Díaz-Gutiérrez

9 December 2022

Modern ports tend to focus on freight transport and cruise traffic. The fishing sector is often the forgotten sector in terms of sustainability and port planning, despite the fact that fishing is a sector of great importance and interest; though it i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,691 Views
15 Pages

Flexible Mobile Hub for E-Bike Sharing and Cruise Tourism: A Case Study

  • Andrea Bardi,
  • Luca Mantecchini,
  • Denis Grasso,
  • Filippo Paganelli and
  • Caterina Malandri

2 October 2019

Bike sharing is no longer a novelty in transportation and has now become a mobility solution in its own right. This study investigated the potential scope of application of e-bike sharing solutions for a niche sector such as cruise tourism, the impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,956 Views
10 Pages

Applicability of Hydrogen Fuel for a Cruise Ship

  • Maarit Mäkelä,
  • Seppo Niemi,
  • Carolin Nuortila and
  • Lauri Nyystilä

Cruise ships function as a means of transport while simultaneously accommodating thousands of guests, providing a holiday experience with various entertainment options. This translates to high energy requirements for propulsion and hotel operations,...

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