The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the cruise ship vessel sanitation program. It discusses the relevance of the program as well as its purposes and goals. Via a priori expectations, the research tests whether physical and routing characteristics of cruise ships influence their vessel sanitation scores. It concludes that corporate and on-board ship management philosophies and practices, rather than cruise ship characteristics, are the major determinants of vessel sanitation scores.
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