The Impact Of Cruise Tourism

After the second World War, mass tourism increased substantially. Its first real boom, mainly experienced by the western countries, was related to the economic development of society and to the increase in number of tourism services and recreational opportunities. Throughout the years, tourism has impacted positively on the world economy and on the countries’ national balance of payments. As estimated in Francisco Vellas’ economic analysis, today world tourism represents over 45% of tourism 's total contribution to GDP (Vellas 6). In addition, the tourism industry accounts for the creation of new jobs, especially for young people.

President Rafael Correa quadrupled the budget from US$40 million to the US$150 million per year which it currently is in 2017. Across the country over 30 touristic projects are in development, representing around US$1.6 billion in investments since 2013 from local and foreign funding. The public policy towards tourism is based on five core values: Safety, Quality, Destinations and Products, Connectivity and Promotion. Domestic financing has been the main aid in positive development but a substantial amount of foreign investment has contributed. The successful “Invest Ecuador Tourism” campaign helped immensely in attracting investment from abroad.

Introduction Tourism in Hawaii has expanded widely throughout the years and has affected Native Hawaiians and their culture in many ways. According to Business Insider, Hawaii is number ten on their most popular states to visit list. It also ranks as sixth in the world in tourist visits according to the Environmental Justice Atlas on their topic of “Tourism and Indigenous”. However, there have been reports from Native Hawaiians that Hawaii is not the paradise state many tourists claim it to be. In a survey, 60% of Native Hawaiians disagreed with the quote, “[tourism] helps to preserve Native Hawaiian language and culture”(Garcia).

The social, economic, and ecological impacts of cruise ships. With an estimated 18 billion dollars in revenue per year, the cruise ship industry is the fastest growing tourism-based industry in the world (Johnson, D., 2002). Although this industry claims to reduce, reuse, research, re-educate, and recycle, there is a growing concern about the impacts of cruise pollution and the social impacts on the local human communities (Dowling, R., 2006). FINISH ON THESIS THAT ORDERS PARAGRAPHS TOPIC SENTENCE When passengers unload from a cruise ship port, there is a large opportunity for economic investment in the host community, but more often, passengers return with an experience of impoverishment and the host community is left underpaid (Dowling,

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1. Introduction JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU), incorporated in Delaware in 1998, is the fifth largest passenger carrier in the U.S. based on revenue passenger miles. With an average of 800 daily flights, it serves more than 30 million passengers and provides flights to 82 destinations in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Purpose of this paper is to analyze the current issues of JetBlue and provide strategic solutions. 2. Business Environmental analysis 2.1 The specific business industry World air travel industry continues to grow steeply, but without a steady profitability.

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Tourism has experienced continued extension and diversification, which was becoming one of the biggest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Moreover, world hospitality industry is reflecting the continued recovery in most parts of the world. Absolutely, in many countries, the recovery in hotel performance was better than that of the economy in the total. In South American where people are traveling to a particular place increased by 50 percent in terms of the number of journeys, which was more than double as much as the overall world increase. The portion of holidays increased from 60 percent in 2009 to almost 70 percent in 2013, with sun and beach holidays and journeys remaining the key types of holiday.

According to UNWTO “over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ‎diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world.” In Belize, tourism is one of the growing industries that has to a large extent, a great influence on the economy. The tourism industry has demonstrated success and commitment to maintain the authenticity of its attractions fostering attractive platforms for investors looking to cater the growing number experience-Based tourist. Yet tourism is not the only successful industry in Belize, there is the citrus industry, sugar industry, banana industry and also the marine industry which help the economy. Therefore tourism does indeed help the development of Belize because it provides jobs, nevertheless tourism is seasonal, therefore it only provides jobs for certain season such a summer, Easter and Christmas. This agreeing with Paul that, “the tourism industry seems to be the most efficient branch of the economy in generating jobs and income in less developed, peripheral countries / regions, where development opportunities are limited.” (2012, p2) Belize being a developing country it is where tourism is necessary for the growth of the economy.

Global tourism has been one of the most dynamic and growing economic sectors during the last 50 years. With a proved powerful capacity of resilience against economic crisis and officially supported positive economic predictions of continuing growing for the first half of the 21st century (UN-WTO, 2013) (Figure 4), this old but healthy globalized market has produced positive and negative effects over the developing territories where it has landed. In the specific case of Ecuador, the last decade has been characterized by an intensive and strong public investment in tourist infrastructure and international marketing in order to attract something of the flows from this huge global market. Especially, it is positively accepted in developing countries