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CRUISING: Good for the Environment Healthy eating & cheaper?
What makes cruising more popular? No daily packing and unpacking, one price for everything?

Multiple destination cruises, good overall value.
But there is more...
Low-cost cruising with 80-or-so other passengers in a sail-powered "Tall ship" was the breakthrough idea of

Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. It presently operates seven 200-to-230-foot ships. Then Star Clippers.

An extremely elegant well-priced operator with the Star Clipper and Star Flyer for unpretentious people who

nevertheless understand the need for a certain level of comfort.
Here’s the beginning of what may become a major segment of the cruise ship industry “Star Clippers”

offer that 4*luxury  in cabins whilst retaining a feeling of being part of a (Non working) crew.

Standard cruising has come along way too."People who Cruise" are reasonably sure that nearly everything

onboard was

included in a “one-time” price. Not so anymore. Some cruise operators now charge one price for their

cruise and port fees, which includes accommodations and standard dining. For other optional's onboard.

Eating in certain upscale restaurants onboard costs extra. Also, many of the new activities on cruises,

such as rock-climbing wall or miniature golf, are often charged.

This always gives a Low cost bass with the choice to eat well & healthily but not over indulge.

(Well most of the time!)

Adult only cruises can be fun as can Children(Of all ages) Only - Disney world afloat, the best of both worlds...
Too much of a good thing? That’s why cruise lines have taken a once-simple activity and added a multitude

of complex options, alternatives, and formats. In the process, they’ve now created a custom-cruise for

everyone Including email facilities...

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There are specialist Cruise too not just Cruise & Stay around Koh Samui & Phi Phi Thailand islands but

Snorkeling from & JUNK.Or perhaps Special Interest cruise for example an Arts Club Cruise -

Music cruises Painting cruises Dance cruises gardens cruises Wine cruises -

Photography cruise Wildlife cruises & 'The Archers' cruise! Also a few well known 'Package operators'

for example:

TUI Thomson have 'Modest Cruising' to or around the Med. Last but not least that nice Stelios chap -

of course is at it again - with Base Cruising. 
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According to European Cruise Council statistics.
a record four million Europeans took cruise holidays last year
Only 2.6 million Europeans took a cruise holiday just five years ago.

By 2006 the number had leapt to 3.4 million and 17% growth in 2007 has taken the figure to  four million.

The ECC 2007 “Markets Report” shows that 60% Europeans travelled in the Mediterranean

and Atlantic Islands, 24% cruised in the Caribbean and other parts of the world

and 16% sailed in Northern Europe.

The top five source markets for cruise passengers in Europe in 2007 are:

1) Cruise UK with 1.3 million passengers, 11% growth
The UK saw around 467,000 passengers departing on ex-UK cruises and 870,000 fly-cruise

passengers last year. Growth was stimulated by increased capacity such as Royal Caribbean’s

Navigator of the Seas, Thomson Cruises’ Calypso and Ocean Village Two.

2) Cruise Germany – 763,000 passengers, 8% growth
Despite Germany’s relatively low growth rate in 2007 it still accounts for 19% of cruise passengers

from Europe. The ECC report predicts strong growth from Germany in the next few years

and one million German passengers by 2010. Growth is expected to be stimulated by four 68,500 tonne

“club ships” on order by market – leader Aida Cruises and by the joint venture announced between

TUI AG and Royal Caribbean Cruises which will create cruises tailored for German customers.

  3) Cruise Italy – 640,000 passengers, 24% growth
Italy is the third largest source of cruise passengers in Europe – the vast majority chose to cruise

in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Islands (81%) and only seven per cent cruise in Northern Europe.

4) Cruise Spain – 518,000 passengers,  32% growth
The Spanish market increased by nearly one third in 2007 to reach more than 500,000 passengers

for the first time – a 127,000 increase on 2006.

5) Cruise France – 280,000 passengers, 16% growth

French cruise passengers now account for seven per cent of European cruise travellers.

ECC chairman David Dingle, CEO of Carnival UK, said: “The popularity of cruising for European

holidaymakers is growing faster than anyone in the industry envisaged.

“The ECC had predicted that we’d hit four million cruise passengers from Europe by 2010.

“We’ve beaten that target two years early with impressive growth across the region -

Spain has seen cruising grow by a third and Italian cruise passengers have increased by a quarter.

“There is no doubt that Europe is  the new centre of gravity for the cruise industry and we’re seeing

increasing numbers of cruise lines basing ships in the region, which will encourage even more

Europeans to cruise in future.”

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