Ocean Travel and Cruising
Subtitle: A Cultural Analysis
Publisher: Haworth Hospitality Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780789021977
Subjects: TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; Psychology; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Travel; Popular Culture - General; Ocean travel; General; Cruise ships; Psychological aspects; Travelers
First sentence: The cruise industry is an $8 billion industry now, with a 1,400 percent growth rate since 1970.
Description: "In Ocean Travel and Cruising: A Cultural Analysis, author Arthur Asa Berger turns his eye to the phenomenon of ocean cruising. This book brings a multidisciplinary cultural studies approach to the subject. It examines ocean cruising from economic, sociological, semiotic, psychoanalytic, and marketing perspectives, offering insights not provided by the more traditional sociological approaches to the subject. You'll explore cruise demographics, the relationship between cruising and gender, the sociology of dining on cruise ships, hedonism and pleasure seeking, the "compulsion to cruise," consolidation in the industry, the exploitation of workers on cruise ships, and a great deal more."--BOOK JACKET.