This book is about modern pirates: those who sail huge cruise ships from one port to another, offloading thousands of visitors a day. While the industry rakes in billions of dollars a year, paying virtually no income tax, the ports that ships visit are left with relatively few crumbs. It exploits workers onboard ships; uses graft from its deep war chests to shape political decisions and influence media; and bullies administrations into accepting, for example, that Carnival's 50%-plus market dominance is not anti-competitive, or that its abysmal environmental and health practices are responsible. It represents capitalism at its worst. A detailed and alarming expose of the injustices of cruise tourism, the book's concluding chapter examines social and political action that has been directed toward the cruise industry, identifies key organisations and groups that have been effective and that have maintained their integrity, and calls on readers to help contain the industry through grassroots activism so that it becomes environmentally, socially, economically, and politically viable.
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By Spice Girl
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Very biased and exaggerated opinion by the author. Those of us who have worked on ships (including the bowels of the ship) know that it is hard work as most jobs in life are! Certainly not the horrible scenarios referred to in the book. Cruise lines are no different to multinational land based companies operating in developing countries.
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Quite Inaccurate - not worth the read.
4 Feb 2006
By Jim M. Leary
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This book was not very well researched before being written. Going on 30 cruises, personal observation, and a few interviews with crew members does not constitute sufficient material to write a book, particularly one that tried to tarnish the cruise industry.
Pertaining to some of the cruise lines' past experiences of throwing trash overboard, I didn't read anything that mentioned Carnival Corporation's implementation of "Environmental Officer" onboard the ships to make sure that each ship complies with environmental regulations. I also didn't read anything about Holland America's comprehensive recycling plants that exist onboard all Holland America ships.
The book seems to be comprised of media-hype (half truth) news articles and television interviews.
Having worked onboard cruise ships for 10 years (approximately 500 cruises.... about 470 more than the author,) I could write a first-hand rebuttal of the uncountable inaccuracies.
Scandals sell. This book tries to paint a picture of scandal. But having been on the inside (and knowing that the author has not,) I got defensive page after page and could not help but wonder who would believe this bunch of bologna.
Save your money and buy a massage on your next cruise.
Pertaining to some of the cruise lines' past experiences of throwing trash overboard, I didn't read anything that mentioned Carnival Corporation's implementation of "Environmental Officer" onboard the ships to make sure that each ship complies with environmental regulations. I also didn't read anything about Holland America's comprehensive recycling plants that exist onboard all Holland America ships.
The book seems to be comprised of media-hype (half truth) news articles and television interviews.
Having worked onboard cruise ships for 10 years (approximately 500 cruises.... about 470 more than the author,) I could write a first-hand rebuttal of the uncountable inaccuracies.
Scandals sell. This book tries to paint a picture of scandal. But having been on the inside (and knowing that the author has not,) I got defensive page after page and could not help but wonder who would believe this bunch of bologna.
Save your money and buy a massage on your next cruise.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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the world's longest complaint letter
15 Jun 2007
By Paul G. Motter
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I have read both of these books and met the author. He is a "self-described" cruise expert whose only true expertise is that he has taken some 30 cruises. He has now become a noted industry basher who has even testified before congress about the cruise industry solely because there are no other "experts" who make the same allegations. He is the best experts the bashers of the cruise industry have, sadly for them.
As a cruise journalist myself who has worked on cruise ships for nearly two years and been covering them journalistically for almost 10 years now, I found this book to be a rehash of the same old cruise stories that have been going around for years, retold with everything in a negative slant.
In other words, there is nothing new or revealing in this book, and most of it is sensationalistic allegations of wrongdoing based on second-hand and unconfirmed information from wherever he could find it. Footnotes are to press stories that talk of allegations but subsequent follow-up articles about findings that may exculpate the cruise lines are typically excluded from the text.
I say world's longest complaint letter because it is well-known he has a beef with a certain cruise line which they never satisfactorily addressed, and that led to this book. Suffice it to say, he comes across as an effete liberal with a sense of entitlement due to his degree (a PhD) and the fact that he is married to an MD who when she revealed her profession she was (shockingly) asked medical advice by fellow passengers.
His various magazine articles include advice to MDs never to reveal their occupation while on a cruise ship - or they may be asked to help someone. Yet he moans about mistreatment of workers on cruise ships as if they are indentured servants (far from true) who I can tell you from experience, if asked, would never give up their jobs.
As a cruise journalist myself who has worked on cruise ships for nearly two years and been covering them journalistically for almost 10 years now, I found this book to be a rehash of the same old cruise stories that have been going around for years, retold with everything in a negative slant.
In other words, there is nothing new or revealing in this book, and most of it is sensationalistic allegations of wrongdoing based on second-hand and unconfirmed information from wherever he could find it. Footnotes are to press stories that talk of allegations but subsequent follow-up articles about findings that may exculpate the cruise lines are typically excluded from the text.
I say world's longest complaint letter because it is well-known he has a beef with a certain cruise line which they never satisfactorily addressed, and that led to this book. Suffice it to say, he comes across as an effete liberal with a sense of entitlement due to his degree (a PhD) and the fact that he is married to an MD who when she revealed her profession she was (shockingly) asked medical advice by fellow passengers.
His various magazine articles include advice to MDs never to reveal their occupation while on a cruise ship - or they may be asked to help someone. Yet he moans about mistreatment of workers on cruise ships as if they are indentured servants (far from true) who I can tell you from experience, if asked, would never give up their jobs.
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Cruise Ship Squeeze - a biased book!
18 Jan 2011
By Spice Girl
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Format:Paperback
Very biased and exaggerated opinion by the author. Those of us who have worked on ships (including the bowels of the vessel) know that it is hard work as with most jobs in life, but certainly not the horrible scenarios referred to in the book. Cruise lines are no different to multinational land based companies operating in developing countries.
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