Tagged: Alaska

Nearly 2,000 passengers from Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam arrived Thursday morning, walking down a gangway at the Don Young Port of Alaska to find a chilly morning in Anchorage. (more…)

Port Klawock, Alaska’s newest cruise port, celebrated the arrival of its first cruise ship, Seabourn Odyssey, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 6. (more…)

Wrangell has lost three cruise ship stopovers this summer to Klawock, where a partnership of three Native corporations is developing a tourist destination with facilities, shore excursions and other activities for passengers. (more…)

Over 1000 Sitkans responded to a cruise tourism survey recently circulated by the city’s tourism task force. (more…)

A Sitka meeting was standing-room-only on Tuesday night, as the city’s tourism task force held its third town hall to ask Sitkans for feedback on how to “right size” tourism in the community. (more…)

Sitka has seen huge growth in cruise tourism, to nearly 600,000 passengers in 2023 – about a three-fold increase over what would have been considered a big summer before the pandemic. (more…)

For the second time, the City of Sitka has denied a citizen’s petition to put cruise limitations out to voters in a special election this winter. (more…)

A record 1.64 million cruise ship passengers visited Juneau this year, according to city officials. (more…)

After his first ballot initiative to limit cruise traffic was denied by the city, Sitkan Larry Edwards is trying again to put the question out to voters in a special election. (more…)