What does cruise mean?

A general term for various types of passenger motorized vessels used to carry passengers for travel, visits, and sightseeing activities.

Cruise ships generally sail along certain water tourism routes regularly or irregularly, and anchor at one or several tourist spots for tourists to visit. Ordinary passenger ships that are also used for tourism or are modified and used exclusively for tourism can be called cruise ships. After the 1960s and 1970s, with the development of tourism, more and more cruise ships were specially designed and built for sightseeing. In addition to the basic functions of ordinary passenger ships, most of these cruise ships provided specialized viewing, entertainment facilities and Services.

Reasons

Because in the early days of postal services, intercontinental postal services relied on postal ships to deliver letters and packages from one shore to the other. These British ships often needed to fly Royal Mail signal flag. After 1850, the Royal Mail allowed private shipping companies to help them carry letters and parcels on a contract basis.

This change has transformed some passenger ocean-carrying ships that were originally owned by passenger shipping companies into passenger-carrying ocean mail ships flying signal flags. Hence the term ocean cruise was born.

However, due to the later emergence of jet civil aircraft, ocean liner gradually lost its function of carrying passengers and cargo and its competitiveness. The role of ocean liner also evolved from a cruise ship to a cruise ship only for pleasure. So strictly speaking, some fun-style mails with long or short journeys can only be called cruise ships, not cruise ships, because they have lost their function of carrying letters and packages.