Specifics of cruise tourism and features of creating a cruise tourism product

Abstract

The paper presents a comprehensive characteristic of cruise tourism as a special type of social and economic activity that involves the implementation of physiological, psychological and other needs of people. Cruise tourism is considered as a whole industry providing the formation, promotion and implementation of a cruise tourism product. A number of basic functions arising from the needs of its organizers and consumers is highlighted, based on the transformation of initial resources into the final product. The industry specificity of cruise tourism is reflected, and features of the cruise as a tourist product are revealed.

Structural and Logical Model of Transport Maritime Functioning Based on Modeling Information Technology

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“…A significant number of participants in the cruise business predetermine the system-forming nature of its functioning. It also indicates the need to identify all its constituent elements in order to understand the cause-and-effect relationships between the main, auxiliary and supporting processes of creating a cruise tourism product (Logunova et al 2020).…”

“…According to the calculations, the most complete relationship between the level of income obtained as a result of entrepreneurial activity in the cruise business is described by the nine-factor model, the average approximation error of which has the smallest value (7.91%) (Ruan and Zhang 2021;Mahon et al 2021;Stojčić et al 2021;Lloret et al 2021;Ren et al 2021;Yuen et al 2021;Yang et al 2021;Logunova et al 2020):…”

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