Negative Impacts Of Cruise Industry

Since 1970s cruise industry has changed completely. In that times there were no such leisure activities, as casinos, spa centers and so on. The cruise sector has evolved from a very small part of the oceanic passenger industry into a cоmplete and cоmplex vаcation business, including аll the different sеctors of the travel industry. The cruise industry now includes a number of outstanding ports all around the world, along with a dense map of destinations, multinational customers from different continents, and all these is a clear picture of globalization. As any fast growing industry, cruise tourism has a line of positive effects and a significant list of drawbacks. In this paper we would consider the essence of these problems and possible

Cruise industry has gained significant changes recently and now it is the most important sector of tourism. It is a highly profitable industry on international level and is considered as the most popular form of leisure activities. Approximately thirty years ago cruise lines were available only for society`s elite, but now everyone has the possibility to enjoy it.
Cruise industry is also considered as one of the fastest growing sectors of travel industry. Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in a passenger expenditure and arrivals in the Caribbean region increased from three million in 1980 to more than 25 million in 2007 (Juan Gabriel Brida, 2010).
1.2 Types of cruises Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines cruise ship as “a large ship that stops at different ports and carries passengers who are traveling for pleasure”. As cruise industry has reached significant changes in recent years, along with industry growth there were also designed large amount of different ships for different forms of

Although the cruise industry represents just a small portion of the international maritime activity, it brings a list of environmental and sociocultural impacts.
Environmental impact. As cruise ships get larger and more luxurious, they also produce more waste. Recently, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that, during a one-week voyage, a large cruise ship with capacity for 3,000 passengers and crewmembers can produce around 210,000 gallons (794,850 L) of sewage stream, one million gallons (3.785 million L) of grey water, 25,000 gallons (95,000 L) of oily bilge water, 150 gallons (568 L) of hazardous wastes, 8 tons of solid waste and a difficult-to-calculate quantity of air pollutants, which must be multiplied by the more than 200 cruise ships currently plying the world’s waterways 365 days a year. In fact, it has been suggested that cruise ships constitute about 77% of the marine pollution