Cruise Ship Law

The cruise industry has become a boom sector in the last decades. Indeed, it is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel industry and continues to grow. This traffic has seen in recent years a dramatic increase in activity, particularly on the Eu

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Contents I. The Cruise Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Cruise Shipping Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Posing the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Cruise Shipping and Consumer Protection Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Cruise Shipping and Transport Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Recapitulation. Package Tour or Transport? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Some Problematic Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III. Standard General Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Conditions Used by Travel Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. The General Conditions Governing Relations Between Travel Agents and Ship Owners: CRUISEVOY 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IV. Contractual Relations Involved in a Cruise Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Relations Between the Consumer and the Agency: the Contract Package Tour Cruise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Relationship Between the Travel Agency and the Ship Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Relationship Between the TOURISt and the Ship Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. Recapitulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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J.L. Pulido Begines (*) Full Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ca´diz, Ca´diz, Spain e-mail: [email protected] © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 J. Basedow et al. (eds.), The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013, Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs 28, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55104-8_9

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I. The Cruise Industry The cruise industry has become a boom sector in the last decades. Indeed, it is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel industry and continues to grow.1 This traffic has seen in recent years a dramatic increase in activity, particularly on the European side of the Atlantic. If during the 1980s the core operations of the crui