What have you leaned about the history of the cruiseline industry?

Question

What have you leaned about the history of the cruiseline industry?

Answer 1

This is quite a difficult subject to explore on the Internet, each cruise line site has a brief synopsis of its own history but there doesn't appear to be a definitive history of cruise lines.

There are plenty of books on the history of cruising e.g.

The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires

By Kristoffer A. Garin

Illustrated. 366 pages. Viking. $24.95.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/books/...