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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Cruise Ship"”.
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Production of Filipino Cruise Ship Workers
… maritime school to workers’ experiences on board cruise ships. The production of the worker in the cultural framework of the family home, school, and workplace is explored. Using a qualitative methodology nine students from a merchant marine school in the Philippines were interviewed. Twenty-five …
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A decision making framework for cruise ship design
… a new decision making framework for initial cruise ship design. Through review of effectiveness analysis and multi-criteria decision making, a uniform philosophy is created to articulate a framework that would enable a designer to more accurately assess what design alternatives are more …
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Economic impact of the cruise ship sector in Iceland: The locals’ perception
… economic, environmental, and social impacts of cruise ship tourism in Iceland. As the number of cruise ship arrivals has increased in recent years, especially in small coastal communities. However, questions have emerged if this sector is sustainable. Using structured, quantitative survey across …
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Pathways of the creative journey - The significance of a cruise ship concept design
This dissertation examines the initial stage of a cruise ship design process and those key success factors that have an impact and are estimated to improve the process, contributing the success of the concept. The aim of this work is to improve the consistency and efficiency of the concept design …
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How Power and Control Drive Behaviour & Identity Modification Among Cruise Ship Workers: A Qualitative Study
… experiences of maritime hospitality officers on cruise ships. The study aims to evaluate the complexities and common influences of both work and social experiences of cruise ship officers as they negotiate, create and modify their identities in the cruise ship workplace. The qualitative approach …
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The Efficacy of the Protection Motivation Theory in Predicting Cruise Ship Passengers' Intentions Regarding Norovirus Disease Incidence
The cruise industry is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry. Concurrent with its growth is the challenge of mitigating the risk associated with shipboard outbreaks. Norovirus is the leading cause of shipboard outbreaks. This study examined the efficacy of the protection motivation …
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Developing the concept of an integrated emergency response system for the tourism industry: case study of the cruise ship industry.
… on land, very little research has focused on the cruise industry. Cruise ships are an important consideration because with their ever-increasing size, they are now floating destinations, hosting thousands of tourists. This study seeks to fill that gap by using building-block scenarios within which …
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Migrant Filipino Seafarers In the Global Cruise Industry: Discourse, Risk and the Geographic Limits to Labor Flexibility
<p>The contemporary cruise ship industry is one of the most visible and global economic activities. It is also one of the fastest growing segments of the tourism industry, which is often considered to be the world's largest. This research explores the most fundamental element that makes this growth …
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Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands
… Islands serve as the dating a growing commercial cruise ship industry, foreign activity. They are also increasingly sites of controversy structures restrict local access and use of harbor areas man scale. This thesis proposes a platform for performance that ... floating and traveling between the …
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Applications of modular construction techniques for habitability spaces in naval ship design and production
… methods for habitability spaces in naval ships, particularly aircraft carriers, are manpower intensive and expensive. In response to decreasing defense spending, the Navy is considering methods to improve the affordability of aircraft carriers. Modular construction techniques for …
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Mitigating Pollution from Cruise Ships: Analysing the Environmental Port Index
Cruise ship tourism is a growing econmic industry worldwide that has faced criticism due to its environmental footprint. With the increased number of cruise ships calling Icelandic ports, increased air emissions from port operations need mitigating. The Environmental Port Index (EPI) is a financial …
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Quantifying human performance during passenger ship evacuation
Despite continual improvements in the shipping industry related to structural design, operational practices, onboard technology and regulations, accidents still occur that result in sinking or capsize. When this happens to passenger ships, the results are often shocking and devastating with loss of …
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A novel safety analysis method for marine cyber-physical systems
… gas open-loop scrubber system and a reference cruise ship Diesel-Electric Propulsion (DEP). Failure rate for 12 DEP system alternatives blackout is also estimated. The derived results for the scrubber system and DEP system demonstrate that the developed Fault Tree is much richer than for the …
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Crisis Management, Tourism and the Three Gorges Dam, China
… in the Three Gorges region and were still on a cruise ship. In addition to these, an unstructured-interview with a senior tourist guide, as a supplementary source, was also conducted to further identify the international tourists’ perceptions of the Three Gorges and the Dam. The findings reveal …