How Cruise Liners Run A Hotel At Hotel Case Study

The business related topic chosen to discuss is how cruise liners run a hotel at sea. In this text there will be a discussion into one cruise line in particular. This cruise line has a history of 47 years of bringing traditional cruising to New York City, it was the first cruise liner to introduce freestyle cruising. This is the largest vessel to homeport in the city.
The chosen cruise liner is called the Norwegian Cruise Line. This cruise line has a fleet of 13 ships in total. In this academic research there will be one ship discussed in detail. This ship is called The Norwegian Breakaway, manufactured in MEYER WERFT, Bremerhaven, Germany on April 25th 2013. The Norwegian Breakaway is a ship that is located in The United States of America.
Norwegian Breakaway seem to be able to make it look easy. The Galley is the area where all the great quality food making takes place. The food and beverage team alone have approximately 865 crew members. There is 29 dining options to choose from each night on the cruise. All the foods cooked for the three main dining rooms, The Manhattan Room, Taste and Savour are prepared in the Main Hot Galley. Each meal for each guest is cooked and plated just before the waiter or waitress serves it to the guest. The pantry is another station in the Galley where all cold appetizers, salads, sandwiches and cold foods for lunch buffets are cooked. There are different stations for fish, meat and poultry. All bakery products are made on-board. The bakery operation is open 24 hours a
There is a total number of 18 lifeboats. 12 lifeboats hold 305 people each and six tender boats hold 258 people each, which totals 5,208 people. There is 13,062 life jackets that include child/infant jackets.
The main H&S items that cruise liners have to be aware of for all the passengers, employees and guests is mainly the security of all onboard.
The most essential task that needs to be done by the employer or in this case the captain and head officers on the cruise is to carry out a risk assessment. This needs to be done once a year. The reason for this to take place is so that no workers or passengers are at risk on the ship. It entails identifying and checking all available hazards on the ship that may cause harm to someone. A risk assessment helps reduce incidents or injuries on the ship occurring. For employees they need to be insured of having a safe and healthy working environment such as clean areas for working, suitable amount of working hours and that all areas on the ship is safe for everybody and that nobody should feel in