A Study on the Evaluation of the Factors That Cause Safety Risk on Cruise Ships

Abstract

The development of ship technology in recent years enables cruise ships to serve as gigantic floating hotels. Safety risks are one of the most important threats to cruise tourism which recently has made a great leap forward. Both considering the natural structure of the tourism sector and taking into account the other tourism disciplines in which cruise tourism is in competition within the tourism sector, a possible safety weakness will cause customers to be distracted from cruise tourism. In this study, the safety risks that may arise during the cruise of ships and during the voyages of passengers in frequent destinations were determined. These identified risks had been analysed by classifying the homogeneous ones under the same title. Accordingly, risks encountered more were determined and solution suggestions were developed to eliminate these risks as a result of the analysis.