Table 3. Criteria and sub-criteria...

Table 3.

Criteria and sub-criteria influencing the selection of a cruise port for ship calls

Criteria	Sub-criteria	Description	Sources
Port infrastructure and facilities	Berth facilities	Qualified berth capacity, depth and channels for servicing all kinds of cruises	Baird (1997); (Ding et al., 2014; Caric and Mackelworth (2014), Lau et al. (2014); Pavlic et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2014); Ozturk and Gogtas (2016), Wang and Han (2018)
	Navigation facilities	Vessel traffic services, pilot services and tugboat services	Pavlic et al. (2014); Dragovic et al., 2018
	Cruise terminal building	Physical and environmental design characteristics, green space and clear guidelines for cruise users	Jordan (2013); Pavlic et al. (2014), Sagun et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2015), Ahola and Mugge (2017); Wan et al. (2018)
	Green terminal facilities	Facilities and processes for reducing potential environmental pollution (e.g. air pollution, water pollution and garbage) from cruises and port operations	Chang and Wang (2012); Ding et al. (2014); Tseng and Pilcher (2015), Chang and Jhang (2016); Tseng et al. (2017); Wan et al. (2018) and Innes and Monios (2018)
Port regulations and services	PSC	Cruise’s safety regulation check (e.g. ship certificates), passenger and crew check, operational processes and documents, safety and rescue facilities	Wang et al. (2014); Ding et al. (2014); Vidmar and Perkovic (2015); Eleftheria et al. (2016), Tsai et al. (2018); Zhen et al. (2018)
	Cruise service functions	Fuelling, water and food supplies, maintenance and related supply-chain services	Wang et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2017); Chen et al. (2017)
	Port charges	Cruise port fees	Castillo–Manzano, Fageda and Gonzalez–Laxe (2014), Wang et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2015) and Chen et al. (2017)
Port-city development plans	City’s history and culture	Interesting historical and cultural attractions^a	Diedrich (2010); Ettema and Schwanen (2012), Pranic et al. (2013); Esteve-Perez and Garcia-Sanchez (2015), Toudert and Bringas-Rabago (2016); Schipper, Vreugdenhil and Jong (2017)
	Green port hinterland transport system	Convenient and green public transportation services (e.g. metro, train, bus and bicycle) and green hinterland space	Petit-Charles and Marques (2012); Ding et al. (2014); Wang et al. (2014), Schipper et al. (2017) and Aregall et al. (2018)
	Onshore tourism programme	Arrangement of a variety of interesting tourism activities	Jones (2011); Ettema and Schwanen (2012), Esteve-Perez and Garcia-Sanchez (2015); Lee and Yoo (2015), Ozturk and Gogtas (2016); Chen et al. (2017); Pallis et al. (2018) and Sun et al. (2019)
Port geography and climate	Port location	Port location within the sailing region	Marti (1990); Pallis et al. (2018); Soriani et al. (2009)
	Port-city climate	Pleasant climate and favourable temperatures	Soriani et al. (2009); Wang et al. (2014)
	Natural resources	Natural attractions such as mountains, scenic countryside^b	Soriani et al. (2009) and Wang et al. (2014)

Criteria	Sub-criteria	Description	Sources
Port infrastructure and facilities	Berth facilities	Qualified berth capacity, depth and channels for servicing all kinds of cruises	Baird (1997); (Ding et al., 2014; Caric and Mackelworth (2014), Lau et al. (2014); Pavlic et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2014); Ozturk and Gogtas (2016), Wang and Han (2018)
	Navigation facilities	Vessel traffic services, pilot services and tugboat services	Pavlic et al. (2014); Dragovic et al., 2018
	Cruise terminal building	Physical and environmental design characteristics, green space and clear guidelines for cruise users	Jordan (2013); Pavlic et al. (2014), Sagun et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2015), Ahola and Mugge (2017); Wan et al. (2018)
	Green terminal facilities	Facilities and processes for reducing potential environmental pollution (e.g. air pollution, water pollution and garbage) from cruises and port operations	Chang and Wang (2012); Ding et al. (2014); Tseng and Pilcher (2015), Chang and Jhang (2016); Tseng et al. (2017); Wan et al. (2018) and Innes and Monios (2018)
Port regulations and services	PSC	Cruise’s safety regulation check (e.g. ship certificates), passenger and crew check, operational processes and documents, safety and rescue facilities	Wang et al. (2014); Ding et al. (2014); Vidmar and Perkovic (2015);Eleftheria et al. (2016), Tsai et al. (2018); Zhen et al. (2018)
	Cruise service functions	Fuelling, water and food supplies, maintenance and related supply-chain services	Wang et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2017); Chen et al. (2017)
	Port charges	Cruise port fees	Castillo–Manzano, Fageda and Gonzalez–Laxe (2014), Wang et al. (2014); Esteve–Perez and Garcia–Sanchez (2015) and Chen et al. (2017)
Port-city development plans	City’s history and culture	Interesting historical and cultural attractions^a	Diedrich (2010); Ettema and Schwanen (2012), Pranic et al. (2013); Esteve-Perez and Garcia-Sanchez (2015), Toudert and Bringas-Rabago (2016); Schipper, Vreugdenhil and Jong (2017)
	Green port hinterland transport system	Convenient and green public transportation services (e.g. metro, train, bus and bicycle) and green hinterland space	Petit-Charles and Marques (2012); Ding et al. (2014); Wang et al. (2014), Schipper et al. (2017) and Aregall et al. (2018)
	Onshore tourism programme	Arrangement of a variety of interesting tourism activities	Jones (2011); Ettema and Schwanen (2012), Esteve-Perez and Garcia-Sanchez (2015); Lee and Yoo (2015), Ozturk and Gogtas (2016); Chen et al. (2017); Pallis et al. (2018) and Sun et al. (2019)
Port geography and climate	Port location	Port location within the sailing region	Marti (1990); Pallis et al. (2018); Soriani et al. (2009)
	Port-city climate	Pleasant climate and favourable temperatures	Soriani et al. (2009); Wang et al. (2014)
	Natural resources	Natural attractions such as mountains, scenic countryside^b	Soriani et al. (2009) and Wang et al. (2014)

Notes:

It means the city’s development history, architecture characteristics and city culture such as Taipei 101 building and National Palace Museum in Taipei city;

Natural and beautiful scenery, which is not artificial architecture or building such as Taroko National Park in Hualien

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