Forever Young and New – Cruise Tourism Author London, Wendy, Farias, Wallace Published 2020 Book Title The future past of tourism: historical perspectives and future evolutions Version Accepted Manuscript (AM) Copyright Statement © 2020 Channel View Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. It is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher’s website for further information Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/401012 Link to published version https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/The-Future-Past-of-Tourism/? k=9781845417062 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au rev 3 – 22 August Forever young and new – cruise tourism Dr Wendy R London (corresponding author) Adjunct Research Fellow – Cities Research Institute Griffith University, Queensland
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[email protected] Abstract Geo-political events, socio-economic conditions and technological advances have directly influenced the leisure cruise tourism sector. However, despite these challenges, cruising continues to experience exceptional growth, often re-inventing itself as a direct response. Projecting into the future, climate change, ongoing geo-political conflict and changes in technology are likely to produce the next epochs of reinvention of leisure cruising, as already being demonstrated. This chapter discusses the major milestones which define each of the broad challenges identified above and describes the cruise industry’s response to them. 1 Introduction Little did Cleopatra know that when she boarded her barge for a cruise down the Nile around 50BC that she may well have enjoyed the world’s first known leisure cruise.