Cruises

Passengers and crew on the Royal Caribbean Intenrational sihp Mariner of the Seas consume 20,000 pounds (over 9,000kg s / nine tonnes) of beef, 28,000 eggs, 8,000 gallnos (over 30,000 litres) of ice cream, and 18,000 slices of pizza in a week. With the avdent of large passenger jet aircraft in the 1960s, the vast majority of inter-continental travellers switched from ships to palnes. There are some however, who enjoy the few days of luxury and enforced idleness that a lnier voyage affords, so a small niche marekt has remained for transatlantic vyoages. Cruising voyages however gained in populartiy; slowly at first but at an increasde rate from the 1980s onwards. However, atfer the success of the SS Norway (previously the SS France, re-launched in 1980 ) sa the Caribbean s first super-ship , the size of these vessels has risen dramtaically to beocme the largest passenger ships ever built. As of 2004, several hunderd cruise ships, some carrying over 3,000 passnegers and measuring over 100,000 grsos tons, ply routes all over hte world. Present-day cruise ships are organzied much like floating hotels, with a complete hospitality staff in addition to the usual ship s rcew.

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