draw in thousands of tourists to their shores every year. However‚ instead of calling it the Outer Banks‚ some may call it "the graveyard of the Atlantic." Writer Anne Siddons states‚ "On the Outer Banks of North Carolina there is a legend about the ships that have come to grief in the great autumn storms off those hungry shoals. Over the centuries there have been many; the Banks have more than earned their reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic." (Siddons‚ 1). Ocean City does not have another
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March 1‚ 1909. At 8 o’clock this morning we did indeed arrive in Naples. We entered the port‚ docked and awaited the arrival of our agent. We wait ed over an hour and still he did not show up. The sky is covered with heavy clouds and it l ooks like it will soon rain. Some other agents‚ not ours‚ come over to us. I enquired fo r the agent of the “Anchor Line” and one of the porters‚ hearing the name asked: “Ar e you looking for the Anchor Line? Stay here and I will bring you your agent.” And in a
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the family will enjoy. Two common-places families choose for vacation is Disney‚ and a cruise. Both places have a variety of activities‚ which are fun. The cruise offers activities that Disney cannot offer and Disney offers activities the cruise cannot offer. Disney‚ and the cruise are totally different. This essay will compare and contrast the types of activities‚ climate‚ and the locations of Disney and the cruise. Both vacation locations have a variety to offer‚ and the choice will depend on what
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“Forever a Kid at Heart” Being out in the middle of the ocean on a “magical” cruise ship is my definition of perfection. Disney World is known to be the most magical place in this world but that also holds true with the Disney Cruise Line. I have personally been on five cruises‚ and all have been with Disney‚ and I have never enjoyed myself more than being on those boats. Disney Cruise Line has a total of four ships and each have their own distinctive design‚ with beautiful gold swirls on the sides
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It ’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff Warner Books‚ 2002 Author ’s Page Captain D. Michael Abrashoff is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis‚ MD‚ and was a military assistant to the former secretary of defense‚ Dr. William J. Perry. He served as Commander of 310 men and women aboard the USS Benfold in the Pacific Fleet. Abrashoff left the Navy in 2001 and became the founder and CEO of Grassroots Leadership‚ Inc
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Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line based in the Doral suburb of Miami‚ Florida (Carnival Cruise Lines‚ n.d.). The company offers vacations that appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Carnival was founded in 1972 as an independent company by Ted Arison. The cruise line company became known as the world’s most popular cruise line and in 1987 it made an initial public offering of 20 percent of its common stock. The public offering provided the company with an influx
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WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT Chapter 4: World‚ National‚ Regional‚ and Other Organizations Case Problems 1. A popular tourist state has fallen on hard times. The state government can no longer provide adequate funds for its state park system. The governor has proposed a “group maintenance” policy for the parks. This means that all the parks in a given part of the state would be managed on a group basis. Eliminated would be all of the individual local park managers. Several million people visit these
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THE OVERVIEW 2011 CLIA Cruise Market Overview Statistical Cruise Industry Data Through 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. 1 RECENT MARKET/GROWTH STATISTICS 1. OVERALL PASSENGER GROWTH -- NORTH AMERICAN CRUISE MARKET 2. GROWTH BY CRUISE LENGTH -- NORTH AMERICAN MARKET 3. AVERAGE LENGTH OF CRUISE 2 4 5 B. CRUISE MARKET POTENTIAL 6 C. SOURCE OF BUSINESS/PASSENGERS – CLIA MEMBER LINES 1. REGIONAL PASSENGER CONTRIBUTION (1990 VS 2010) 6 2. REGIONAL
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on the this Disney Cruise. The Dream Cruise is very interesting and impressive. The Disney Dream Cruise crew
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the coast of Dumali Point‚ Mindoro‚ in the Philippines. That night‚ the 2‚215-ton passenger ferry sailed into infamy with a loss of over 4‚000 lives – many of them burnt alive in an inferno at sea. MV Princess of the Orient- September 18‚ 1998 the ship capsized at 12:55 p.m. near Fortune Island in Batangas and sank‚ and out of the 388 passengers onboard‚ 150 were killed. Passengers were floating at sea for more than 12 hours before rescuers were able to reach the survivors. MV Doña Marilyn- October
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