This study represents an economic impact assessment of the cruise shipping industry in Australia for the 2009-10 financial year.

Outlining additional information associated with the history of Cruise Downunder.

For 2008-09 the phrase ‘global financial crisis’, or as we know it the “GFC”, has impacted the cruise industry and we have not escaped the effects of the fierce downturn in consumer wealth. All things considered, however, Australia seems to have fared well in comparison to other cruise markets.