Barcelona, a Leader Destination in Cruise-passenger Tourism: Keys, Impacts and Facts

Tamajón, Lluís Garay; Cànoves, Gemma; Prat, Josep Maria Morera

doi:10.1080/15980634.2014.11434683

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“…All forecasts categorize cruise tourism as the best current and prospective type of tourism. Therefore, many destinations measured their tourism growth with the development of cruise ship activities (Garay et al, 2014). The cruise field is the rapidly developing part of the tourism sector.…”

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Towards the Revitalization of Egyptian Nile Cruises: Opportunities and Challenges

Helmy

Elhalem

2020

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hos

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Cruises are currently regarded internationally as arising tourism activities and the Nile Cruises have become one of the important components of the Egyptian tourism sector. The research is aiming at providing an overall and current profile of the Egyptian Nile Cruises as well as demonstrating the opportunities for, and challenges against the Egyptian Nile Cruises' revitalization. A questionnaire has been distributed among 35 managers of sampled floating hotels to illustrate the latest condition of the Nile Cruises. An interview has also been conducted to explore the opportunities, challenges, and visions for Egyptian Nile Cruises' development. It has been concluded that most of Egyptian Nile Cruises have been negatively affected by the sequences of critical crises that led to work stagnation and a decrease in profitability. Recently, there is an undesirable influence of the COVID-19 outbreak on Nile Cruises since the cruise ship is the first hospitality establishment adversely influenced by epidemics. However, Cruise trips are still a potential tourism field in Egypt as Upper Egypt is a unique tourist destination that surely guarantees tourists' demand. Finally, it is proposed to adopt modern marketing tools to attract new market segmentation and sign protocols with inspection companies to control the health and safety as well as manage the anti-virus infection and protection procedures.

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Towards the Revitalization of Egyptian Nile Cruises: Opportunities and Challenges

Helmy

Elhalem

2020

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hos

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“…Popular tourist attractions with a mix of visitors coming by cruise ships and traveling on land, like Venice and Barcelona have experienced major challenges related to crowding (see e.g., Garay et al 2014, Russo 2002. Such challenges are not confined to larger metropolitan areas.…”

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Mission ATINER is an Athens-based World Association of Academics andResearchers based in Athens. ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER"s downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles,Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles" Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER"s mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people"s opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one"s opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the "truth" are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER"s name.

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“…Their study of the socioeconomic impact of cruise ships around the urban zone ports suggested that cruise passengers spend more in these areas of the port, usually in the more important ports (base ports), rather than in the ports of call. Just as the shipping companies are making great efforts to capture, through innovation, greater expenses within the ship itself, generating complete products that maximize cruise passenger spending, preferably during navigation, should be developed, rather than in the ports of destination [22] .…”

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Prediction of the impact on air quality of the cities receiving cruise tourism: the case of the Port of Barcelona

Guerra

Moreno

Cortés‐García

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The cruise tourism industry has experienced significant growth in recent years and has a very positive outlook for the future. However, its environmental impact requires a review of its sustainability, including the analysis of its social, economic and environmental balance, and the evaluation of its impact on port cities receiving cruise ships. The purpose of this document is twofold: First, to analyze the relationship between air quality, as an environmental variable, and the volume of cruise ships and passengers that visit a port with the aim of generating information. Secondly, it is intended to develop an index, based on the information already available that allows cities to predict the impact of this activity, so that decisions are made to alleviate these effects. Methods: The primary data taken monthly for the period 2006–2017, related to the level of emissions and the number of cruises and passengers, are used as a basis. A regression analysis is performed to determine the relationship between air pollution and the number of tourists coming from the cruise ships. As a contribution, the results show the influence of this type of tourism on environmental indicators. In addition, in an original way, a regression function is established that allows estimating the future impact of the cruise industry in the ports cities. So that, cities can prevent this type of environmental impact. This will make it easier for the cruise tourism industry to develop more sustainable models in the long term.

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Barcelona, a Leader Destination in Cruise-passenger Tourism: Keys, Impacts and Facts

Cited by 9 publications

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Prediction of the impact on air quality of the cities receiving cruise tourism: the case of the Port of Barcelona

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