The phenomenal success of the American television present The Love Boat, produced from 1977 to 1986, was additionally pivotal in reshaping the American public’s image of cruising and transforming it into a specialised market with broad appeal and widespread household recognition. No longer did the Blue Ribband—the award given to the quickest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in the course of the early to mid-1900s—reverberate with consumers. Floating resorts like The Love Boat and cruising for fun and leisure did.

The tourism trade will benefit from gathering additional knowledge on accessibility, exemplified in the wider literature and in interview …