Maybe it is time to look carefully at certain aspects of our live before COVID 19. Cruise Ship tourism is actually a very artificial way of tourism, with devastating consequences for the environment and for the citizens of the popular cities. Maybe we should evolve to a world with a less hasty form of tourism, a world without bucketlisting every possible destination in the world.
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I agree with that..but they comply better than any other agencies regarding ocean pollution guidelines etc.Their ships are moving to LPG gas fuelled engines.There are many regulations on them.
They provide employment for millions of people.
They are the first ones to get targeted because of uncertainty.They paid huge fines and they accepts and get audited by external agencies.
Pollution- there are many cargo vessels cause 10 times more pollution .
I've never been on a cruise ship. Come to think of it, I never had a desire to be on one.
So, what are the devastating consequences for the citizens in the popular city?
I think you are correct about negative consequences of mass tourism. A large number of people are taking insane trips that seem to be more about creating a list of the places they've been than learning about different cultures.
Knowing nothing about cruise ships, it seems to me that they should be a relatively benign form of mass tourism. People party on a boat for two weeks with the vast majority of their time spent on the boat.
In almost every City frequented by cruise ships, there are protests. There is the aspect of Air pollution, which is in fact more than Cargo ships, and mostly closer to the city center than the other sources of pollution.
And also tourism of cruise ships tends to swarm the streets on already busy hours. They are more concentrated around the sights and generally overcrowd practically everything.
They are not desirable tourists to have in your City and spend far less money in the city it self - paid excursions from the boat itself, and they eat for free onboard.
Those seem to be problems with the tourist industry at large. I've heard Florence is completely overrun. The National Parks in Southern Utah are being trampled to pieces. Yellowstone Park is simply a 200 mile long traffic jamb.
I imagine that cruise ships have the effect of concentrating all of the wealth of tourism into the big corporations that own the ships. The tourists probably expect accoutrements of the islands to be free and part of the cruise. "I paid $2,000 to MegaCorp for the cruise, why should I give a local shop anything?"
Mindless tourism seems to have negative effects.
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