What is the difference between a cruise ship and a cruise ship?

As China’s national power grows stronger, its people’s lifestyles gradually become more diverse! Traveling on a cruise has become a fashion, but when choosing, two words come into public view, cruise, cruise. Many people, including the editor, are a little confused and confused about the difference between the two. Now let me explain it to you!

Cruise ships are a general term for various types of passenger motorized vessels used to carry passengers for travel, visits, and sightseeing activities. Also known as cruise ship and tourist ship. A cruise ship is a type of passenger ship that provides a hedonistic journey. The entertainment facilities and luxurious services on board are regarded as an indispensable and important part of the journey.

The original meaning of a cruise ship is a large passenger ship that sails on fixed routes and regularly on the ocean. The word "mail" itself has the meaning of transportation, and in the past, transoceanic mail was always carried by this large fast passenger ship, hence the name.

After World War II, most military industries transformed into civilian industries, and the aviation industry emerged and developed rapidly. Compared with air transportation, the original transoceanic cruise ship was slower and took a longer time, and gradually withdrew from the stage of history. A brief introduction to cruise ships:

A cruise ship is a passenger ship used to carry passengers for travel and sightseeing activities. It is a passenger ship used for recreational navigation. In the design of cruise ships, most cruise ships focus on entertainment facilities rather than speed requirements. The destinations along the way and the facilities on the ship are all part of tourism. The cruise ship itself is a mobile hotel and tourist destination, and it has all the entertainment facilities. Although some cruise lines are one-way, transportation is not its main purpose. Cruise ships usually do not cross the ocean directly, but travel in circles close to the coastline, connecting a series of tourist destinations, starting points and ending points along the land and coast. The port is usually the same port and the journey is usually shorter. Cruise tourism has become an important part of the international tourism industry.

The English word for cruise ship is Mail

Ship, which refers to a ship that has signed a contract with the postal agency to undertake mail transportation tasks. For example, the British Royal Cruise Lines is also responsible for the Royal Mail mail transportation task. of ships. Because of the speed requirements of mail transportation, cruise ships must have faster speeds.

Cruise ships were once the main means of transporting passengers across the ocean. In addition to transporting passengers, cruise ships also transported mail and cargo. In the era before passenger air travel became common, postal authorities would award mail transportation contracts to shipping companies with the fastest and latest ships, so passenger ships also performed postal transportation tasks.

After World War II, most military industries transformed into civilian industries, and the civil aviation industry emerged and developed rapidly. Compared with air transportation, the original transoceanic passenger ships were slower and took longer time. The long-distance passenger transport business of transporting people by sea was gradually replaced by the civil aviation industry. People-transporting ships gradually turned into serving the sightseeing and tourism business, and cruise ships became cruise ships. The difference between the two

The first difference is that cruise ships have scheduled flights; cruise ships do not, and they can be scheduled or irregular. In other words, if it is a cruise ship, it must be a regular liner, take a fixed route, and have a fixed pick-up and drop-off port; but this is not necessarily true for cruise ships.

The second difference is reflected in the volumetric tonnage. The volumetric tonnage of cruise ships is very large, often weighing 100,000 tons. Currently, the largest cruise ship in the world is the "Oasisofthe

Seas" owned by American Caribbean Company, with a volumetric tonnage of 225,000 tons; while the volumetric tonnage of cruise ships is much smaller, reaching The 10,000-ton level is pretty good. Currently, the largest cruise ship in the world is the "Golden One" owned by my country's Chongqing Jiaoyu Cruise Co., Ltd., with a volumetric tonnage of 12,000 tons.

The third difference is reflected in the owner and the purpose of ownership. The owners and purposes of cruise ships are relatively single, and they are generally owned by liner companies. Their purpose of owning cruise ships is to carry out passenger transportation business; while the owners and purposes of cruise ships are more diverse: some are specifically used to run passenger transportation business Cruise lines, but also private wealthy individuals. Some wealthy private individuals own cruise ships not for business purposes, but only for their own pleasure and their team’s pleasure. The development history of cruise ships:

Since cruise ships are engaged in passenger transport business, why is it not called a passenger ship but a cruise ship? This starts with the origin of cruise ships. Cruise ships originated in Europe. Since there are many islands in Europe and the coastline is long, in order to facilitate the sending of mail across islands and sea areas, people have developed a kind of mail that is mainly used to transport mail and can also take a few passengers to the mail delivery place. vessel. Later, as more and more passengers were brought along, more and more cabins were added, and the hull became larger and larger, turning it into the cruise ship we see today. In fact, at this time, the original main business of transporting mail had been counterattacked by the side business of carrying passengers, but the name did not change. This is the origin of the name "cruise ship".