Characteristics and consequences of the cruise traffic seasonality on ports: the Spanish Mediterranean case

Esteve-Pérez, Jerónimo; García-Sánchez, Antonio

doi:10.1080/03088839.2017.1295326

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“…Vessels call in March and April when they sail to the Mediterranean at the beginning of the peak season and in October and November when they return mainly to the Caribbean at the beginning of the peak season there. Moreover, it should be noted that the Mediterranean Sea has its peak season from May to October (Esteve-Perez and Garcia-Sanchez, 2017b). Furthermore, cruise lines also deploy vessels in the South Cluster to develop regular winter itineraries between October and April of the following year.…”

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Determination of Seasonality Patterns in the Transport of Cruise Travellers Through Clustering Techniques

Esteve-Pérez

García-Sánchez

2019

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The tourist attraction of a cruise itinerary is composed of the on board experience plus the shore-based experience. Due to the positive dynamism of the cruise industry since the beginning of the twenty-first century, cruise lines are driven to innovate to create new experiences that help maintain high demand rates. From the point of view of creating new experiences on land, cruise lines move their vessels from one destination region to another to maximise the vessel's occupancy and to offer itineraries with a wider variety of shore-based attractions. These new itinerary designs lead to alterations in the seasonality patterns of the neighbouring regions. In this work, the 17 most important cruise ports located in the northeast quadrant of the Atlantic Ocean are analysed to find groups of ports with homogeneous seasonality patterns using clustering techniques. The analysis showed two different seasonality patterns. Consequently, some implications to improve the use of the ports of both clusters are included.

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Determination of Seasonality Patterns in the Transport of Cruise Travellers Through Clustering Techniques

Esteve-Pérez

García-Sánchez

2019

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“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to extend Porter's diamond framework into cruise research studies. Based on the literatures [14,31,32,39,[46][47][48][49][50][51], we hypothesize that the CRUISE framework enhances Hong Kong's and Shanghai's cruise terminals regional competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific region in this section. The framework is a representation of reality.…”

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“…Natural seasonality refers to natural circumstance like weather and climate. Institutional seasonality arises from religious, cultural, ethnic, and cultural factors [48]. Thus, some cruise terminals are not utilized or under-capacity in non-peak seasons [14].…”

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Location Characteristics of Cruise Terminals in China: A Lesson from Hong Kong and Shanghai

2019

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Starting from the late 1960s, the cruise industry has appeared in two key regions, namely Europe and North America. However, the cruise industry has undergone fundamental changes which implies that the number of frequent cruisers is growing, with western travelers supposedly travelling to diverse cultures, attractive cruising destinations and exotic experiences in Southeast Asia for western travelers, and thus cruising in the Asian region has been happening at an enormous growing rate. Among the Asian regions, China is experiencing the fastest growth rates. Both Hong Kong and Shanghai established two cruise terminals which can be described as homeport cities in the 21st centuries. However, Hong Kong and Shanghai cruise terminals need to deal with neighboring competitors like Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, just to name but a few, in a challenging and dynamic environment. In order to examine Hong Kong and Shanghai’s potential evolution into an international cruise terminal hub, we suggest Connectivity, Regional Competitiveness, Utilization, Infrastructure, Security, Environmental Management (CRUISE) framework to seize attainable prospect of the external environment and investigate locational characteristics of cruise terminals in Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively. The first mover and sustainable competitive advantage will be performed. Academic and managerial implications of the research findings for cruise terminals are elaborated.

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“…The cruise market has formed obvious the low season and high season affected by seasonality. Some markets are year-round, such as the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Asian market, which are major cruise regional markets (Sun, Feng, and Gauri 2014;Jeronimo and Antonio 2017;Jeon, Duru, and Yeo 2019). Some markets are seasonal, including Alaska, the Northeast Atlantic, and Australia/New Zealand, etc, which are only serviced during their summer months (Rodrigue and Notteboom 2013;Jeronimo and Antonio 2019).…”

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Cruise trajectory network and seasonality: empirical evidence from Queen Elizabeth cruise

Wang

Ducruet³

2020

Maritime Policy & Management

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Characteristics and consequences of the cruise traffic seasonality on ports: the Spanish Mediterranean case

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

Determination of Seasonality Patterns in the Transport of Cruise Travellers Through Clustering Techniques

Determination of Seasonality Patterns in the Transport of Cruise Travellers Through Clustering Techniques

Location Characteristics of Cruise Terminals in China: A Lesson from Hong Kong and Shanghai

Cruise trajectory network and seasonality: empirical evidence from Queen Elizabeth cruise

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