Peculiarities of formation and perspectives of development of the world market of the cruise industry

In the article, peculiarities of the modern cruise market proceeding from universal tendencies of development are considered by means of the analysis of dynamics of the world market of the cruise industry. The cruise product as a complex of services is presented in the form of three main subsystems: the services offered on the board of the vessel, the services consumed by tourists ashore, and the services connected with advance and realization of a cruise product and rendering assistance to passengers in the process of the organization of a transport travel. The main directions of analysis of the cruise business and its constituent elements are determined. It is established that the competitiveness of the cruise market depends not only on the share occupied on it by this or that company, but also by the indicators characterizing efficiency of functioning of any economic system, basic of which are: the level of income received as a result of the implementation of business activity, the number of the workers occupied in this direction of business and level of their labor productivity