Cruise Ships |
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All about Cruise Ships & related topics |
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Cruise Ship (cruise liner) is a term used for a passenger ship. These ships are used for vacation, fun & pleasure cruises and travels. Cruising has become very popular and is an important part of tourism & travel industry thesedays. There are millions of passengers on these vacation cruises each year. Cruising industry is growing fast and so new ships are being built every year to meet North American and European market needs. Vacation cruises mostly operate on roundabout course, they return back to the originating port, but some big ocean liners are doing cross ocean voyages and they are not coming back to their port for many months or even years. Another part of this industry are huge vessels used as residences. People can buy residences which become their property for 50 or 99 years. Other way is to buy a share. For example one month. These residences are 1.000 to more than 3.000 square feet spacious luxurious apartments with everything you need. The first cruising vessel was built in 1900 by Hamburg America Line. Its name was Prinzessin Victoria Luise. First cruises were just the transatlantic crossings. As ocean liners competed for their passengers, many new luxury services were added to the state as we know it today. |
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