“…However, there are a few studies dealing with cruises along the European receptive areas, especially along the rivers, and all researchers dealt with cruises along the Pan-European Corridor VII (Dragin, 2008(Dragin, , 2010Dragin, et al, 2006Dragin, et al, , 2007Dragin, et al, , 2008Dragin, et al, , 2009Dragin, et al, , 2014.This paper extends the research to include the cruise ships which cruise along nine rivers: the Danube, the Rhine, the Main, the Moselle, the Seine, the Rhone, the Garonne, the Dordogneand the Po. Apart from this, the structure of tourists and the crew on European river cruise ships needed to be determined once again, as there have been some great changes in the global economy and politics in the last ten years,since the previously mentioned research.The global economic crisis has affected the consumers' purchasing power, i.e.…”