Pub Date : 2020-06-22DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15833169859482
C. Lütkenhaus
The cruise industry is a still-growing tourism sector in need for many personnel. However, criticism regarding the working and living conditions on board cruise vessels is a frequently seen topic in the news as well as in research literature. The well-being of the people running the floating hotel resorts is a critical success factor for the industry. Recently, the topic of employee well-being is bonded to concepts of work–life balance. There is rarely any literature on this topic with regard to the cruise industry. This research aims at examining whether the concept of work–life balance is applicable to working and living on board, as well as finding out the extent to which the critically discussed characteristics of this unique environment relate to well-being. To meet the aim of this study an online survey was conducted. It was spread on social networks to reach former and current employees of different cruise lines and was closed with a sample of 212 respondents. The study revealed that all chosen factors, including the ones often criticized, are related to the work–life balance of crew members on board. The only factor that was not a significant predictor of well-being was the multicultural environment employees are living and working in. The overall work–life balance on board was positively rated by the survey's participants.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-22DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15833208921145
Esperanza Suárez, L. Susaeta, F. Babinger
{"title":"Organization and Challenges of the Human Resources Function in a Cruise Ship Company","authors":"Esperanza Suárez, L. Susaeta, F. Babinger","doi":"10.3727/154427320x15833208921145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320x15833208921145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35146,"journal":{"name":"Tourism in Marine Environments","volume":"15 1","pages":"65-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44052022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-22DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15833179029590
Alexis Papathanassis, R. A. Klein
{"title":"Editorial: The \"Liquid-Modern\" Cruise Sector: Growth, Responsibility, and the Failure of Moral Relativism","authors":"Alexis Papathanassis, R. A. Klein","doi":"10.3727/154427320x15833179029590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320x15833179029590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35146,"journal":{"name":"Tourism in Marine Environments","volume":"15 1","pages":"59-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41425566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-03DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15819596320544
Chiara Guidino, Elizabeth Campbell, B. Alcorta, Valeria Gonzalez, Jeffrey C. Mangel, A. Pacheco, Sebastián Silva, J. Alfaro‐Shigueto
Whale-watching tourism is growing rapidly worldwide. Currently, it occurs in more than 119 countries and is estimated to produce more than US$2.5 billion in annual revenue. In northern Peru, this industry is relatively new, and the economic impact generated from whale watching remains unknown. This study was designed to provide an assessment of the economic impact of whale-watching activity in northern Peru. In this area the activity is focused on humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). In 2018, we conducted surveys to 199 whale-watch tourists and six tour companies to estimate the economic impact of the activity. Our results indicate that whale watching of humpback whales is currently worth an estimate of US$3 million annually as a tourist attraction, an economic input that did not exist in the region 10 years ago. This activity has a significant potential for further growth; however, there is an urgent need for guidelines and regulations to ensure a sustainable and well-managed whale-watch tourism industry.
{"title":"Whale Watching in Northern Peru: An Economic Boom?","authors":"Chiara Guidino, Elizabeth Campbell, B. Alcorta, Valeria Gonzalez, Jeffrey C. Mangel, A. Pacheco, Sebastián Silva, J. Alfaro‐Shigueto","doi":"10.3727/154427320x15819596320544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320x15819596320544","url":null,"abstract":"Whale-watching tourism is growing rapidly worldwide. Currently, it occurs in more than 119 countries and is estimated to produce more than US$2.5 billion in annual revenue. In northern Peru, this industry is relatively new, and the economic impact generated from whale watching\u0000 remains unknown. This study was designed to provide an assessment of the economic impact of whale-watching activity in northern Peru. In this area the activity is focused on humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). In 2018, we conducted surveys to 199 whale-watch tourists and six tour\u0000 companies to estimate the economic impact of the activity. Our results indicate that whale watching of humpback whales is currently worth an estimate of US$3 million annually as a tourist attraction, an economic input that did not exist in the region 10 years ago. This activity has\u0000 a significant potential for further growth; however, there is an urgent need for guidelines and regulations to ensure a sustainable and well-managed whale-watch tourism industry.","PeriodicalId":35146,"journal":{"name":"Tourism in Marine Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3727/154427320x15819596320544","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45064751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-03DOI: 10.3727/154427319x15746710922758
P. Mukhopadhyay, S. Ghosh, V. DaCosta, Siddhiraj Pednekar
Coastal and marine ecosystems offer a large number of services for human well-being, including recreation, which is evidenced by people's willingness to spend on leisure. Traditional categories of national income accounting such as income from service sectors like "Hotels and Restaurants" do not capture the net welfare (consumers' surplus) from recreation that can be attributed to the existence of the ecosystem. This article presents the first estimates of a country-wide recreational value regarding the consumers' surplus generated by coastal and marine ecosystems in India using the Zonal Travel Cost Method. We found that the recreational value from nine coastal states in India generated consumers' surplus to the extent of 0.9% of India's gross domestic product at market prices [Rs93,888.76 billion or US$5,863 billion purchasing power parities (PPP)] in 2012–2013 for domestic and foreign tourist (at 2012–2013 current prices). The consumers' surplus generated for visitors of domestic origin is estimated at Rs295 billion (US$18.4 billion) and for visitors from the rest of the world is Rs562 billion (US$35 billion). This highlights the importance of ecosystems and provides a framework to estimate recreational demand functions. It also provides a mechanism to create suitable state-specific tariffs on recreational services for financing coastal and marine conservation.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-03DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15781713928749
Gyunghoon Kim, L. Jodice, L. Duffy, W. Norman
While sustainable tourism and responsible tourism share commonalities of guiding principles, responsible tourism places more emphasis on the behaviors of individual actors. However, little is known about how responsible tourists' behaviors are reconciled by their attitude toward tourism products' economic, cultural, and environmental contribution to a destination. This study explores the role of the tourists' attitude toward mariculture and perception of its benefits within the context of their travel decision-making process. Framed with the theory of planned behavior, this research examines tourists' perception of shellfish mariculture in relationship to their subjective knowledge about mariculture, attitude toward product quality of mariculture, and intention to be involved in marine tourism. This study suggests that the perception of benefits of the product are important considerations when tourists decide their travel activities in coastal destinations.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-03DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15809114561894
Yen E. Lam González, Carmelo Javier León González, J. D. L. Ledesma
This article aims to analyze factors determining tourist satisfaction with nautical destinations. To this aim, survey data were collected from 255 nautical tourists visiting Cape Verde and an ordinal logit model was used. Data analysis confirms that tourists' satisfaction increases with the diversity and quality of the nautical and cultural offer, and the security offered by the destination, in line with previous research. As novelty, the affective feelings towards the nautical destination were also found as an important antecedent of nautical tourists' satisfaction conformation. The study also confirms that tourists who had been in the archipelago previously do experience a higher level of satisfaction compared with nonrepeaters. Lastly, the fact of visiting other competing nautical destinations influences the level of satisfaction of the nautical tourists in Cape Verde, although not all previously visited destinations have the same impact. This suggests that strategies for nautical tourism development should be more attentive to establish long-lasting relationships and networking structures with some key competitors, and segment their marketing plans according to tourists' past destination choice. The results are of great importance for several destinations seeking to utilize the promotion of nautical activities as a key driver for tourism competitiveness and positioning improvement.
{"title":"Measuring Tourist Satisfaction with Nautical Destinations: The Effects of Image, Loyalty, and Past Destination Choice","authors":"Yen E. Lam González, Carmelo Javier León González, J. D. L. Ledesma","doi":"10.3727/154427320x15809114561894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320x15809114561894","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze factors determining tourist satisfaction with nautical destinations. To this aim, survey data were collected from 255 nautical tourists visiting Cape Verde and an ordinal logit model was used. Data analysis confirms that tourists' satisfaction increases\u0000 with the diversity and quality of the nautical and cultural offer, and the security offered by the destination, in line with previous research. As novelty, the affective feelings towards the nautical destination were also found as an important antecedent of nautical tourists' satisfaction\u0000 conformation. The study also confirms that tourists who had been in the archipelago previously do experience a higher level of satisfaction compared with nonrepeaters. Lastly, the fact of visiting other competing nautical destinations influences the level of satisfaction of the nautical tourists\u0000 in Cape Verde, although not all previously visited destinations have the same impact. This suggests that strategies for nautical tourism development should be more attentive to establish long-lasting relationships and networking structures with some key competitors, and segment their marketing\u0000 plans according to tourists' past destination choice. The results are of great importance for several destinations seeking to utilize the promotion of nautical activities as a key driver for tourism competitiveness and positioning improvement.","PeriodicalId":35146,"journal":{"name":"Tourism in Marine Environments","volume":"15 1","pages":"47-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44010341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15958571868603
T. Militz, Deárne Kershler, P. Southgate
The production and vending of handicrafts by the indigenous peoples of cruise destinations in the Pacific region has unrealized potential. Handicraft sector development strategies are constrained by the limited information guiding what products to produce, which product attributes are important, and appropriate pricing for the cruise tourism market. Using structured interviews, we evaluate cruise passenger preferences and intended purchase behavior towards a range of mabé pearl and motherof-pearl (MoP) handicrafts. Our study is conducted in a newly emergent cruise destination, Papua New Guinea, where cruise passenger demand for handicrafts, purchased as souvenirs, goes largely unmet. The majority of cruise passengers expressed both interest and willingness in purchasing mabé pearl and MoP handicrafts, though preferences were found to exist for specific products and product attributes. Latent factor analysis revealed cruise passenger preferences could be summarized by the importance an individual assigned to a handmade product, a product with accompanying information, or the aesthetic appeal of a product. The importance assigned to these factors was found independent of cruise ship and passenger demographics, but partly explained by purchase intent (i.e., purchase for self or others). Factoring these results into handicraft development strategies will help maximize local economic benefits from pearl industries and cruise tourism in Papua New Guinea, but also throughout the Pacific region.
{"title":"Informing Artisanal Pearl and Pearl-Shell Handicraft Production for the Cruise Tourism Market Through Analysis of Intended Purchase Behavior","authors":"T. Militz, Deárne Kershler, P. Southgate","doi":"10.3727/154427320x15958571868603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320x15958571868603","url":null,"abstract":"The production and vending of handicrafts by the indigenous peoples of cruise destinations in the Pacific region has unrealized potential. Handicraft sector development strategies are constrained by the limited information guiding what products to produce, which product attributes are important, and appropriate pricing for the cruise tourism market. Using structured interviews, we evaluate cruise passenger preferences and intended purchase behavior towards a range of mabé pearl and motherof-pearl (MoP) handicrafts. Our study is conducted in a newly emergent cruise destination, Papua New Guinea, where cruise passenger demand for handicrafts, purchased as souvenirs, goes largely unmet. The majority of cruise passengers expressed both interest and willingness in purchasing mabé pearl and MoP handicrafts, though preferences were found to exist for specific products and product attributes. Latent factor analysis revealed cruise passenger preferences could be summarized by the importance an individual assigned to a handmade product, a product with accompanying information, or the aesthetic appeal of a product. The importance assigned to these factors was found independent of cruise ship and passenger demographics, but partly explained by purchase intent (i.e., purchase for self or others). Factoring these results into handicraft development strategies will help maximize local economic benefits from pearl industries and cruise tourism in Papua New Guinea, but also throughout the Pacific region.","PeriodicalId":35146,"journal":{"name":"Tourism in Marine Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69754013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427320x15888322468764
Rachel Yerbury, W. Boyd, B. Weiler
Nature recreation can be beneficial for human health and well-being, and this article invites discussion about whether environmental behavior nature contact can influence nature contact. As human life becomes more urbanized, people interact less closely with nature, and nature connections are weakened. Tourism provides an opportunity to enhance nature contact, and hence nature connection, and may motivate proenvironmental behavior. This study uses the R statistical package to analyze questionnaire data from 679 participants who have encountered marine mammals in the wild, as part of an ecotour, and in captive settings. It considers the questions: Does a connection to nature mediate the role between nature contact and well-being? Do marine mammal experiences specifically contribute to human well-being and environmental behavior? The role of nature connection as a mediator between nature contact and well-being is described in a structural equation model. Marine mammal experiences are shown to be significantly and positively related to human well-being (three-way ANOVA) and environmental behavior (Kruskal–Wallis H test). We conclude that nature connectedness mediates the effect of nature contact on well-being, and marine mammal experiences have an effect on well-being and environmental behavior. This study adds to research on cetacean experiences by including all marine mammals across different experience types. The results assist identify paths through which recreation time may achieve a two-way benefit of well-being and environmental behavior.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-18DOI: 10.3727/154427319x15721827632578
L. C. Jonas, N. Botha, P. Myles
Coastal and marine tourism is one of the fastest growing subsectors of the tourism industry and the workforce needs to be equipped to be able to work in this industry. There is a lack of importance placed on coastal and marine tourism curricula and a focused curriculum framework would provide a guideline for future course development for the industry. The purpose of this article is to present a curriculum framework for undergraduate coastal and marine tourism university programs. Data were collected in the South African context through a mixed methods approach with a multiphase design whereby qualitative data were first collected through content analysis, followed by quantitative data collected through questionnaires, and the third phase included qualitative data collected through semistructured interviews. The study found a variety of both soft and physical skills that are applicable to the coastal and marine tourism environment. Specific teaching and assessment methods that would be more applicable to the industry are also identified. Coastal and marine tourism curricula will have to be all-encompassing yet industry focused.
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