Abstract: At present, the increasing rise of cruise tourism has brought serious public health and safety risks due to poor ventilation and high degree of agglomeration. There is a lack of research on the spread of viruses in the cabins of cruise ships, resulting in an inability to form a complete system to deal with the outbreak of infectious diseases. In this paper, the relevant literature on virus transmission in the cabins of cruise ships at home and abroad is surveyed comprehensively, and classified statistics and analysis are conducted. It is found that this kind of literature mainly investigates virus diffusion mechanisms and virus transmission suppression methods. At present, the main research on the impact of virus transmission focuses on central air conditioning in cruise ships. Based on the above research, this paper predicts the future development trends of research on infectious respiratory diseases aboard cruise ships, and makes suggestions for health and safety on cruise ships at home and abroad, and prevention and treatment measures for infectious disease outbreaks.