期刊名称：Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
印刷版ISSN：2590-1982
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
页码：100391
DOI：10.1016/j.trip.2021.100391
出版社：Elsevier BV
摘要：This paper provides an overview of the current state of the world’s cruise industry, with a focus on the chronology and the main impacts that the COVID-19 has had on the industry. Florida is presented as a micro context of the pandemic’s impacts on the local economies of cruise-dependent regions. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the many infected ships in the first quarter of 2020, the entire cruise industry was stopped and a prohibition on resuming this industry was impose worldwide. This paper presents some of the consequences of stopping the cruise industry and the recommended protocols for resuming. Due to the dramatic impacts on the entire industry, some cruise lines are trying to resume despite the fact that the COVID-19 is not yet under control. The first aim of this paper is to cover the cruise industry and its importance for society, introduce the main facts of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the correlation between cruise ships and the spread of this disease. The second aim is to present the new pattern to resume the cruise industry and its challenges.
关键词：Cruise industry ; COVID-19 ; Impacts ; Resuming and challenges
