Basic Course on Leisure on Water
Over centuries people have been using water transportation as a need to move people and cargo from one place to other. However, other modes of transport, especially air transport has made a vast impact on transportation of people due to its quickness and time savings. Thus, trans- oceanic passenger transport over water declined over a period of time and it has remained mostly a leisure activity where many tourists have attracted to. Ocean Liners which used to ply on busy sea routes were converted into leisure cruisers where it opened new vista of Tourist activity.
Passenger transport over water is still used as a necessity in many places to fill the gaps such as creeks, lakes, rivers etc. where ferries are used to transport not only the passengers but even their vehicles such as cars, scooters, buses and even trains. Some of the ferries have added lot more value to their services than just transportations such as luxury, best cuisines, entertainment etc.
River cruising has opened up new tourist destinations which were not accessible by other modes of transport. Canal boat holidays have become very popular in Europe where one can just glide through beautiful landscape. House boats in many parts of the world have attracted many tourists who have taken fancy in a floating house with all the luxuries.
Water based Leisure Tourism has become very popular. There are innumerable options such as Ferries, River Cruises, Ocean Cruises, Canal Boats, House Boats etc. Each type of leisure has lot many activities for tourists. If you are selling water based Leisure Tourism, this is an ideal course to provide you insight and would help you sell the Tour packages offering Leisure on Water.
In this course, we will study different types of River & Ocean Cruises and various ferries which are used by the Tourists. We also understand Canal Holidays and House boat products. We try to cover the entire spectrum of cruising as an industry under tourism and its sales.
