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A cruise is an ocean trip taken on a cruise ship solely for pleasure. A vacation taken on a cruise ship is known as cruise vacation. A cruise ship is also known as cruise liner or luxury liner.

Traveling by ship is a very old but the culture of traveling by cruise ships solely for pleasure started in the late 19th century. Pioneering the cruises across the Atlantic Ocean, a shipping company named Hamburg America Line laid the foundation stone of cruising industry. Inspired from it, several other shipping companies started cruises such as caribbean cruises and mediterranean cruises.