From 1990 to 2000 cruise vacationers expanded in number from three.5 million to over eight million per yr, with Americans accounting for eighty % of cruise passengers worldwide. In this similar interval, the variety of cruise ships plying worldwide waters elevated from 97 to one hundred seventy, and the number of cruise ship berths nearly doubled from sixty eight,474 to 127,943. Nineteen new cruise vessels have been delivered in 2002, to be adopted by another twenty-one new vessels by 2004 (CLIA, 2000; McDowell). Although some ocean liners have been constructed in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, most cruise ships have been and continue to be inbuilt Europe and Japan. With their history of government subsidies, Europe and Japan have been able to underbid most American shipbuilders.
The resort proper in the coronary heart of Charleston dates back to 1763 and was as quickly as house …