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Cruise Line Revenue Management: Overview and Research Opportunities

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While cruise lines share a variety of characteristics with airlines, hotels and especially casinos, revenue management approaches which are suitable for other sectors of the hospitality industry have to be adapted in order to meet the special requirements of cruise lines. Until now, decision support systems, optimization models, as well as pricing and allocation policies for cruise line revenue management have attracted little attention in the field of operations research. Based on a review of the existing literature, research gaps are identified and possible approaches to close these gaps are suggested.

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  1. Institute for Operations Research and Information Systems, Hamburg University of Technology, Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4, 21073, Hamburg, Germany

    Daniel Sturm & Kathrin Fischer

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Helmut Schmidt University, Institute of Computer Science, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Applied Mathematics, Helmut Schmidt University, Applied Mathematics, Hamburg, Germany

    Armin Fügenschuh

  3. Institute of Logistics and Organization, Helmut Schmidt University, Institute of Logistics and Organization, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Josef Geiger

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Sturm, D., Fischer, K. (2018). Cruise Line Revenue Management: Overview and Research Opportunities. In: Fink, A., Fügenschuh, A., Geiger, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2016. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55702-1_59

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