Beside technical precautions, political decision processes can play crucial roles. If it is needed to have
environmental friendly cruise tourism, certain regulations and laws have to be implemented in different regions of
the world at the same time.
There are worldwide critics about cruise tourism in the name of sustainability and environment. Some of NGOs
and networks can be listed as follows:
-Bluewater Network; Safeguarding the Seas
-Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters; Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters
-Ocean Conservancy, Cruise Ships - Floating cities
-Oceana, Contamination by Cruise Ships
-The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance – KAHEA, Cruise ship traffic in Hawaiian waters
Critics were raised in Germany since 10 years with the campaign of NABU (Naturschutzbund Deutschland)
about cruise tourism. This caused also certain reactions from industry to the politicians such as,
-Strict regional laws about reduction of emissions were implemented.
-Volunteer schemes and solutions of companies such as development of new ship technologies for environment
such as recycling, energy etc. have been started. But the number of volunteer companies is very limited at the world
scale.
-Protection of destinations is also very useful for worldwide operating companies. This has to be settled in the
mind of cruise companies with negotiations.
-Economic profit is reached mostly by two important companies. These are mostly registered in countries which
are called ‘Flag of Convenience Countries’. These countries present themselves to these companies as tax, labour
and service heavens with cheap security and working/labor conditions. But coin has two sides:
-Cruise workers live in bad conditions. They have to be under global laws which protect social security rights.
-Destinations make less profit. This must be change if there is strong mutual understanding between companies
and destinations