Cruise shipping: Problems and prospects from blue economy perspectives

Abstract

The demand for cruise shipping has progressively developed over the centuries in EU countries and Americas region. In the recent years, it has steadily multiplied attractiveness amongst vacationers in Asia especially in the countries of South East Asia and the Far East. The wave of cruise tourism has also touched Bangladesh, which has ample scope and opportunity to improve this promising sector. The fast growth of river and ocean cruise and geographic expansion has amplified the traveling involvedness rising the financial, socio-economic, ecological and cultural impacts. Consequently, the significance of cruise improvement must be evaluated on how it marks initially to society in a travel destination. It is a descriptive investigation and the study was grounded on together primary and secondary sources to study consequences, which would highlight on the following features: instituting a 24X7 visitor service point, ensuring a wide-ranging logistic facilities associated with cruise tourism, welcoming overseas cruise line operators to scrutinize exceptional sights in Bangladesh, collaborating with other Asian nations, forming a distinctive management division, along with development and emerging exclusive resources related with the travel and tourism sector of Bangladesh.