Cruise home-port selection criteria

Cruise ports seek to secure cruise calls, with most of them competing to accommodate the most profitable activities of all: home-porting. Meanwhile, an uninterrupted growth of cruise activities is based on the evolution of renewed business strategies that alter home-porting selection criteria. The present study examines the criteria structuring cruise lines decisions of which port to use for home-porting with the use of a database constructed with input from cruise lines, ports and cruise terminal operators, and stakeholders. Methodologically, it does so via a survey and the analysis (descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, and Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test) of the 109 replies received. The collected empirical data reveals (a) the hierarchy of the home-porting selection criteria; (b) the variance of the perspectives of cruise lines, cruise ports, and other stakeholders; and (c) the role of the experience of cruise professionals in shaping their assessment of the significance of each criterion - while the comparison of the findings with those of past researches identifies the evolution and potential alterations of this hierarchy of home-porting selection criteria.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2020.100584
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539520301218
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• Authors:
  • Papachristou, Aimilia A
  • Pallis, Athanasios A
  • Vaggelas, George K
• Publication Date: 2022-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 100584
• Serial:
  • Research in Transportation Business & Management
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2210-5395
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22105395

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Business practices; Cruise lines; Ports; Stakeholders
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01758742
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 2020 10:30AM