Royal Caribbean International

RCCL In 2013, RCCL doubled their operating margin from 5% in 2012 to 10%. Royal Carribean’s operating margin was driven by higher yield and occupancy, which shows a demand for the company’s cruises despite higher prices. Carnival Corporation’s operating margin is usually higher than RCCL’s, but there was a drop in occupancy and a fall in yield in 2013. Combined with higher unit costs, the Carnival Corporation’s operating margin dropped from 11% to 9% in 2013 (Overview: Royal Caribbean Cruises, the 2nd largest cruise operator). Net financial expenses have a significant impact on net margin and earnings per share, and even though RCCL had efficient operations that generated a higher operating margin, its net margin in 2013 was 6% - lower than…

and a small corporate staff. Royal Caribbean International employs a functional organizational structure and can be used as an excellent example of a U-form structure. The CEO, Richard Fain,…

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Lying just 19 kilometres off of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula in crystal clear Caribbean seas Cozumel is no longer a sleepy backwater island that only attracted divers and big game fisherman. The building of luxury hotel resorts along the Cozumel’s coast south of the capital San Miguel and the arrival of cruise ships has changed the demographics considerably, but no so much that it has become another Cancun. Built to reflect the Yucatan’s Mayan heritage the all-inclusive Grand Park Royal Cozumel…

Bristol became the largest English slave-trading port in the early for a short space of time following the removal of the monopoly of the Royal African Company in 1698 and subsequent gains which aided in growth of this portside city. A variety of factors aided growth including location of Bristol in relation to the Atlantic world, its economic connection with the many merchants trading with major slaving trading nations like Portugal and sending manufactured goods to parts of west Africa as well…

St. Martin/Maarten is an island located in the Caribbean Sea. The island was claimed by Spain in 1493 and occupied by the Dutch in 1631. Spain relinquished the island to the Dutch and the French in 1648, who divided the island into two different territories. The two territories have very different cultures. St. Maarten has a population of approx. 42,000 (World Factbook 2017) and is a constituent of the Netherlands. The Prime minister is William Marlin. Saint Martin has a population of approx.…

Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent population numbers about 81,800(at the 2011 census) and the capital and largest port and city is St. John’s, on Antigua. The country is nicknamed “Land of 365 Beaches” due to the many beaches surrounding the…

The Atlantic slave Trade and the formation of African communities in the Caribbean and Brazil Most countries of the European continent had known slaves early in the formation of their societies. Some reports say that slavery in Europe existed since the late 1400’s, but in a small dimension. During that time, slaves could only be found in family houses, they used to work as house holders, cook for the family and do all the domestic services of the house. After a few years, the Europeans felt the…

the idea that this was genuinely a work of God. Starting in the 1830s, American politicians asserted, and many citizens believed, that God had divinely ordained the United States to grow and spread across the continent. While there were many believers of such claims, there were also naysayers that disagreed with the idea of God ordainment. This led to hostility and bitterness amongst American settlers and in 1846, it turned into war. By the 1850s, the United States had a government in place and…

nations lacking in guns. This allowed for them to trade off their defeated enemies to the Portuguese which sent about 50,000 victims of these wars off to Luanda. The Africans that were captured destined for a hard life on the plantations of the Portuguese, Spanish South America, and British North America. The passage way to those locations are across the Atlantic and is known as the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was one of the worst parts of the slave trade because it was physically…