Cruise News Articles

The City of Ketchikan, Holland America Line, Customs and Border Protection and Coast Guard Sector Juneau have initiated planning efforts to jointly sponsor a mass rescue exercise simulating the joint response to the evacuation of a cruise ship in Southeast…

Seattle expects 2009 will bring another record year with 208 vessel visits and more than 800,000 passengers The Port of Seattle ended 2008 as the leader on the Alaska cruise run, posting its best year and narrowly topping Vancouver for…

Eight of the nine ACA cruise lines that visit Alaska each season received the supreme nod in Best in Class categories selected by the Cruise Critic’s editorial staff. The editors named Carnival Cruise Lines best main restaurant, best value for…

ACA’s Rod Pfleiger, left, enjoys the food with Keith Perkins, Sitka Chamber of Commerce board member, during Sitka’s first Season’s End Celebration and 14th annual Running of the Boots. ACA was a major sponsor of the event which celebrated the…

Celebrity Cruises’ Millennium was the scene of a fire drill last month when the Alaska State Firefighters Association met in Juneau for the first time since the 1980s. Firemen practiced planning, operations, search and rescue, victim removal, fire boundaries and…

Alaska’s third most popular cruise port greeted 811,000 passengers in 2007 who enjoyed Skagway’s gold rush history. Skagway is the only Southeast port that acts as both an embarkation and disembarkation port. SKAGWAY – The seasonal cruise industry injected $95…

Stan Stephens, vice chair of the Alaska Travel Industry Association, presents the Denali Award to Charlie Ball of Princess Tours during the association’s annual meeting earlier this month in Anchorage. This award is presented annually to an individual for his…

ACA President John Binkley will serve on an advisory board to assist a consortium of state marine research organizations to use a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to foster awareness of ocean issues amid a changing…

Kenai Fjords Tours is Alaska’s most popular wildlife and glacier cruise into Kenai Fjords National Park. Kenai Fjords Tours is owned and operated by the CIRI Alaska Tourism Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI). CIRI is…

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has been named a finalist in Condé Nast Traveler magazine’s 2008 World Savers Awards. The awards honor 38 travel companies from around the world for their leadership in social responsibility in five key areas: poverty alleviation,…