Cruise Industry Table of Contents Page 3 Executive Summary Page 4 - 6 Topic Paper Page 7 Work Cited Page Executive Summary Cruise Industry gives people the opportunity to get away on a ship that will take them away from many of their daily activities like work‚ and stress. There are many different reasons people decide to take a cruise such as value‚ convenience‚ choice‚ see new places‚ comfort‚ and even family get together. The
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MID 107 Cohort: Spring 2015 Alec Lekas January 16‚ 2015 The Industry of Cruise Liners and How They Succeed Introduction Over the course of this paper‚ the Cruise Line industry will be thoroughly examined and discussed in order to answer some important questions. First‚ the current state and some brief history of the industry will be looked at. Some topics that will be discussed will be the structure of the industry‚ trends within it‚ the treat of substitutions and new entrants
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ADECCO SA’S ACQUISITION OF OLSTEN CORPORATION 1. How has Adecco been able to outperform its rivals in the staffing industry? What is the strategic and economic rationale for its acquisition of Olsten? 2. Evaluate Olsten’s strategic and financial conditions as of mid-1999‚ in particular its funding needs and resources. 3. Based on Adecco’s pro forma estimates of the staffing business of Olsten in Exhibit 13‚ what is your estimate of total enterprise value? For this calculation make the following
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THE CRUISE INDUSTRY The cruise industry is a highly profitable international activity‚ and the fastest growing sector of the travel‚ tourism and leisure industry. The cruise industry has gone through significant changes from the days of transoceanic transportation and tropical vacations only available to the domain of society’s elite‚ to the modern multimillion tourism and leisure industry that offers an affordable vacation option and a level of comfort difficult to match for the average citizen
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important metrics that are most important to monitoring results for a cruise line company like Carnival would include but are not limited to Revenues by Geographic Area (you can monitor which region is more profitable)‚ Balance Sheet‚ Revenue by Segments (Carnival offers both cruises and tours) and Selected overall that would include fuel consumption‚ cruise operating expenses break down and passengers carried during a specific cruise line trip. (Attached is an example of Carnival’s Revenue by Segment statement)
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5 Opportunities 5 Threats 8 External Factor Matrix 11 Table 1 EFE 12 Competitive Profile Matrix 13 Table 2 CPM 14 Internal Assessment 15 Financial Ratios (historical) 15 Table 3 Ratios 16 Line graphs Figure 1 Liquidity 17 Figure 2 Leverage 17 Figure 3 Activities 17 Figure 4 Profitability 18 Figure 5 Growth 18 Comparison to industry & Competitors 19 Table 4 Industry/Competitor Comparison 20 Strengths 21
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Case Carnival Cruise Lines Mission statement of Carnival cruises Mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company‚ organization or person‚ its reason for existing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_statement) The Mission of Carnaval cruise line: Our mission is to deliver exceptional vacation experiences through the world’s best-known cruise brands that cater to a variety of different lifestyles and budgets‚ all at an outstanding value unrivaled on land or at sea." Vission statement
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Human Relations (CI #1) Employee and Labor Lawsuits Employees of Carnival are claiming unfair working conditions with poor compensation. (CI #2) Succession Mr. Arison stepping down in the future‚ who will run company‚ third generation Arison or someone else. Operation/Logistics (CI #3) The Costa Concordia Cruise Ship lawsuit Cruise ship laying on side‚ environmental risk‚ and lawsuits from crash. (CI #4) The Carnival Triumph dead at Gulf of Mexico Pending lawsuits from this event‚ leading
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Executive Summary Cruise tourism is becoming an increasingly popular “leisure choice” worldwide‚ and keeping this point in mind cruise tourism potential of India is vast and is still in infancy stage. Mumbai as the commercial capital and gate way of India possess the great potential of cruise tourism as this place sees the highest number of tourist coming in and going out so it becomes the necessity of the time to convert Mumbai port from “port of call” to “home port”. This report has been prepared
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2013 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number of Crew Affected | Celebrity Cruises | Celebrity Infinity | 03/17 - 04/01 | 101 of 2086 (4.84%) | 17 of 927 (2.05%) | Princess Cruises | Ruby Princess | 03/03 - 03/10 | 266 of 3129 (8.50%) | 10 of 1‚189 (0.84%) | Royal Caribbean Cruise Line | Vision of the Seas | 02/25 - 03/08 | 118 of 1991 (5.93%) | 3 of 765 (0.39%) | 2012 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number
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