Learn While Cruising: Experiential Learning Opportunities for Teaching Cruise Tourism Courses

This article follows up on the seminal experience written by Weeden, Woolley, and Lester in 2011 where a cruise field trip was undertaken with a group of undergraduate students in the UK. It presents the reflections of students who undertook a cruise field trip carried out in Australia with 24 undergraduate students. While some of the experiential learning findings obtained in this research ( n ???=???22) support what was presented from the smaller sample of the above-mentioned article ( n??? =???8)–facilitation of group cohesion and first-hand understanding of managerial and operational aspects of the cruise sector–new pedagogical opportunities were also identified.