So lets be honest, when most people think of a cruise holiday they think of “golden oldies” walking along the deck hand in hand, people playing shuffleboard and not enough lifeboats to go around. The air travel revolution of the 1950′s may have brought rapid intercontinental travel to the masses and given a more convenient holiday option for some but in 2011 cruise holidays are making a serious revival.
The cruise holiday has can trace its origins back to the 1830s when Arthur Anderson had the idea of cruising around Scotland and Iceland in the Summer and the Mediterranean in the Winter. The idea never really had mass appeal until the 1900 and even still it was an activity for the super rich only. By the 1920s,and despite the loss of the Titanic the cruise ship industry was growing @ a phenomenal rate.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that the Cruise Holiday was developed into a vacation package or “package holiday”. Cruise Lines jumped on board mass media and started hitting the airways with packages designed to appeal to common people for the first time.
These days cruise holidays are now a popular choice for the modern family holiday. Cheap air travel means that a cruise is available to pretty much anybody with access to an airport. The ships themselves come in all shapes and sizes, many with facilities and space that would put a modern city to shame. The Mediterranean and Caribbean are popular destinations for sun seekers with Alaska and Scandinavia being the choice for those with no fear of ice or water hazards.
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