Phuket is the only island province in Thailand. Phuket Island located in the tropical zone of the west side of the southern part of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. The Northward connected to Phang-nga province by Sarasin Bridge and Thao ThepKrasattri Bridge. The Eastward connected to the sea of Phang-Nga province. The Westward and Southward connected to the Indian Ocean. Phuket also called "The Pearl of the Andaman Sea". Phuket is an international destination attracting many tourists around the world. With the tropical with plenty of sunshine weather is, on the shore, tourists can visit several attractions such as cultural attraction, natural attraction or man-made attractions. These are the reason why Phuket are the destination that many tourists …show more content…
Since 1980, 1.5 million cruise passengers were recorded, which skyrocketed to 20 million in 2012. The predicted by UNWTO (2012) that its number will increase further to 25 million passengers in 2015 as evidenced by a dramatic rise in ship size, number of ships, a number of passengers, port development, and growth rate of cruise tourism in all regions. Most importantly, it is predicted by CLIA (2014) that Asia will be the emerging region for cruise tourism, its number from the year 2013 to 2014 increased further from 3.4% to 4.4%. As cruise demand and capacity grow within Asia as a whole, South-East Asia’s geography, climate and natural and cultural resources make it ripe for growth potential similar to the Caribbean. Reasons, why Asia is the emerging region for cruise tourism is it, can travel all year round and the weather conditions are usually sub-tropical, stable and predictable. Also, the weather is warm that not too cold or too hot so it suitable for the cruise in all seasons. Asia also easy for accessibility for Asian cruiser, due to the rapid growth of the global economy, Asian becomes more popular for cruising and there are alternative airports for tourists to choose. For this reason, Asian is an easy destination to access and the tourists can also do Fly-Cruise at the same time. Supporting reasons for its growth are its premium …show more content…
It involves multifunctional and multidisciplinary components such as entertainment onboard, leisure facility, infrastructure, and onshore activity. Cruise tourism is a travel segment that provides pleasure and safety as the priorities as well as onboard facilities and onshore activities. It carries passengers from home port (starting point) to visit any scheduled ports of call in the
The industry started a major growth phase in the late 1960s and early 1970s achieving more than 2,100 percent growth. The early goal of the cruise industry was to develop a mass market since cruising was until then an activity for the elite. A way to achieve this was through economies of scale as larger ships were able to accommodate more customers as well as to create additional opportunities for onboard sources of revenue. The global growth rate of the cruise industry has been enduring and stable, at around 7% per year in spite of economic cycles of growth and recession. For instance, the financial crisis of 2008-2009 has not impacted the demand for cruises. This underlines that the industry has been so far fundamentally supply based; the ships are built and the customers are found to fill them through various marketing and discounting strategies.
Currently, foreign cruise liners operate almost completely outside of the scope of the U.S. tax system, and this arguably has a discriminatory impact on U.S. cruise lines. Generally, if a foreign corporation is deemed to have a permanent establishment in the United States, they are subject to a tax on the portion of their income that is attributable to the U.S. For example, if a foreign clothing company, had just one small store in Miami where there could be “continuous and systematic” presence, it would be viewed to have a permanent establishment and taxed 30%. Since foreign cruise corporations fall into the category of “shipping,” the headquarters they have in the U.S. aren’t considered a permanent establishment. Therefore, the U.S. isn’t
Imagine: It’s Saturday morning in Charleston, South Carolina. On this brisk morning, a resident is reading a book with a cup of coffee on the porch of his historic home. Without warning, a boisterous call from the PA System of a cruise ship pierces the tranquility of the morning. This call signals the departure of the cruise ship, which is then followed by an unnecessary horn, wailing four times. According to a citizen of Charleston, this is a common scenario as it repeats 104 times a year. The cruise ship in Charleston disrupts the residents, pollutes the atmosphere which harms the historic infrastructure, plunders city laws, harms marine life through waste dumping, blocks beautiful views through violating building height codes,
Over the past few years, cruise ships visiting New Zealand has grown drastically. Between 2014-2015 alone, the cruise sector was worth $436 million in value to the New Zealand forecast. This is predicted to grow to a whopping $543 million between 2015-2016. As the cruise ships entering New Zealand are getting bigger and there are more coming, the New Zealand cruise industry will be growing, as well as providing adequate infrastructure. Making these continuous changes is going to have many positive and negative impacts on the country and its residents.
Thailand is widely popular for its beaches as it helps the tourists to enjoy the sun under the shadow of palm trees and romantic stroll on the cool sandy shore. The country holds the world’s beautiful beaches and adventure spots. Tourists from different parts of the world visit the destination and relax in the Thai beaches by drinking coconut milk from the shell. People who are pressured with work can visit the beach massage centres and get rejuvenated. If you are adventure person, then hire a boat and dive into the beaches to explore the marine life.
The Two forces currently affecting the cruise line industry are the economic and political forces. These two forces represent threats to the company and the industry because in 2009 the economy of the use was in a downturn and sales went down for that year. The global recession significantly impacted the financial performance of travel companies worldwide. Carnival suffered significant loss. Reduced travel demand as a consequence of the recessionary economy by 13%. As the consumer’s discretionary spending capacity declines, the demand for Carnival’s cruise services would also decline affecting the revenue growth as well.
For the introduction, brief information regarding my purchase and the travel and tourism industry is presented. It was then followed by the explanation of the 2 chosen theories from two different chapters.
In 2013-14 Tauranga had 83 voyage calls, 25 vessels entering with 83 port days in total. They also had 100 unique passengers and 149,000 passenger port days. Tauranga has established itself as a go-to destination for cruise passengers, with its natural beauty and friendly locals it is not hard to see why. Over the years, Tauranga’s cruise tourism has changed from the 2013-14 statistics, the amount of voyage calls this year has gone down but the amount of unique passengers has gone up to 160,100.
Phuket is well known as a Pearl of Andaman because of its beautiful beach and many tourist places such as Patong Beach, Kata Beach, Karon Beach and Lam Promathep. Actually there are additional factors such as its culture, architect, historic and much more that is enough to make this city became a paradise.
The company’s current strategy is to attract more repeat cruisers and new cruisers of different segments by offering different types of packages. Such differences include choice of shorter or longer cruises, a low to moderate price for affordable cruises for middle class, and longer luxury cruises for affluent classes. As part of the company’s plan, Carnival is "going global" through a joint venture with Hyundai Merchant Marine to the Asia market.
Cruise Tourism is niche tourism and it forms a small part of the global tourism industry, according to Dowling (2006). A cruise refers to travelling by sea to undergo a vacation not for transportation reasons or cargo handling. (Mancini, 2004) A vacation taken up through cruising would allow tourists to relax, enjoy the floating paradise of restaurants, casino, swimming pool, indoor gym and other installations on the cruise ship. The cruise ship in this case, would be the destination of the vacation, as tourist would spend all of their time on board, except instances when the ship reaches port and optional activities can be taken up at the port.
During the past few decades, traveling has greatly increased. Purposes of travel vary, some travel for business, some for leisure,
Wow! I am really going on a cruise today. When I get all my things together at my house I hit the road and drive to our destination.When I arrive to my destination, there is very many people there,and very enormous cruise ships beside me. I walk around for a little while until they tell me to get ready to border the ship. It takes me a while until I reach the entrance to the cruise. When I get closer it gets bigger and bigger and it blocks off the sun from me. When I look up to the entrance the door rises down and everyone hurries in so they can get in their room and I do the same. I finally reach the top and I go inside and it is very magical and wonderful.
Located in Southeast Asia, Thailand has become a well-known destination to many travelers since the early stage of mass tourism. The boost of tourism in Thailand started with Vietnam War where Thailand became a popular destination for the rest and recreation of US military. Since then the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established as an official organization to promote the country’s tourism (McDowall & Wang, 2009). Despite a lot of world external factors negatively affected Thailand tourism such as Gulf War 1991, Asia Financial Crisis 1997, SARS 2003 and Tsunami 2004, the overall number of tourists was increasing due to the quick response of the government to the needs of tourism industry and the effect of targeted promotional campaigns (Zhang, Qu & Tavitiyaman, 2009). According to TAT (2014), the international tourist arrivals increased over 333 times from 0.08 million in 1960 to 26.7 million in 2013. And in the same period, tourism revenue rose from US$10 million to US$38 billion. Although Thailand hosted a significant number of tourists and gained a lot of revenue from tourism, Thailand also suffered from negative effects such as AIDS, negative image of sex tourism (Li & Zhang, 1997), degradation of the environment (Koont...
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism