Essays Tagged: "Cruise line"

Carnival Corporation Case Study

ns in 1972 when Ted Arison purchased an aging ship and converted it into the first vessel for their cruise line. Since then, Carnival Corporation has grown into the world's largest cruise line with Te ... cruise line with Ted Arison's son Mickey Arison taking over as CEO of the Corporation. Carnival has cruise brands that offer a broad range of travel from contemporary to luxury to fit everyone's budge ...

(5 pages) 88 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

An Alternative to Traditional Elderly Care

ty is to provide independent residents with an option of spending a portion of the year on a luxury cruise line that incorporates many of the features found in a traditional Continuing Care Retirement ... ot of additional expense.The enterprise we have designed will reflect the life aboard a world-class cruise line, while providing many services commonly found in a CCRC. We would carry three features s ...

(6 pages) 39 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Case 31: First Greyhound, then Greyhound Dial, then Dial, now

ion and growth. Until 1970, he had acquired 30 different companies, among them several bus lines, a cruise line and a company specialized in furniture transportation. However, the most important fact ... rm very poorly. Furthermore, all the other divisions started to suffer and had to withdraw from the cruise-ship niche. According to analysts, Greyhound wasn't more than a hodgepodge of different busin ...

(8 pages) 2850 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Problem Set Two-MBA 503

ent and sold when rates were 8 percent?1.920.302.1196.803.100(920.30/1196.80)=76.9%10.19 North Pole Cruise Lines issued preferred stock many years ago. It carries a fixed dividend of $6 per share. Wit ...

(4 pages) 23 0 3.7 Dec/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

A Look at the Affects of the Cruise Industry on Economics, Environment and Society.

The cruise ship industry has been the fastest growing sub-sector in the travel industry. Since 1980 the ... ector in the travel industry. Since 1980 the average annual development increase in the quantity of cruise passengers worldwide has been 8.4% (Zapata-Aguirre & Gabriel Brida, 2009). The first form ... 10). World war two caused a drop in tourism due to the great depression, but then around the 1950's cruise line industry boosted, but still fell short to the preferred overseas travel of aircrafts (Cr ...

(10 pages) 24 0 0.0 Apr/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Baderman Island-Crisis Management Plan

od borne illness in a restaurant, infestation of rodents in a hotel and an outbreak of the flu on a cruise line" (L. Pullium, personal communication, September 11, 2008). Some examples of external cri ...

(7 pages) 41 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication