Cruise News Articles

The Interior Tourism Summit, sponsored by the Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau, explored challenges facing Alaska visitor businesses, including the news that cruise companies would send fewer vessels to the state next summer. The summit follows a season in Fairbanks…

Don Habeger participated in the Juneau tourism summit, sponsored by First Things First Alaska Foundation, a Juneau nonprofit. The foundation invited municipal, state and tourism industry representatives to Juneau for a economic summit on tourism in July. Executive Director PeggyAnn…

Princess passengers picked Kenai Fjords Tours as the best shore excursion in Seward. For the tenth year, Princess Cruises ended the Alaska season by recognizing top-rated local tour operators with the line’s C.R.U.I.S.E. service awards for best shore excursion experiences,…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaskan Congressman Don Young released the following statement after learning Disney Cruise Line will offer Alaska cruises during a four-month season in summer 2011: “I am very excited to see that Disney will be coming to Alaska,”…

The so-called “Report Card” released by Friends of the Earth (FOE) on cruise lines’ environmental performance is “not based on science, law or the facts but rather FOE’s own arbitrary and flawed criteria,” according to a statement released by the…

Environmental engineer Dan Daniel explains the advanced environmental systems aboard Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas during a ship tour last month. The Skagway Municipal Assembly passed a resolution August 20 asking the state to create a panel to evaluate…

By Ashton Goodell The airline and cruise industries say they are just trying to keep their heads above the water: there are fewer planes, fewer ships and fewer passengers this year. And the worst is yet to come. Tourism shops…

Gov. Parnell addressed a packed house at the Anchorage tourism summit Leading the speakers at the August tourism summit in Anchorage, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell expressed concern for the drop in visitors to the state and indicated lawmakers need to…

Kristine Harder of Northwest Pewter speaks to the crowd at the Southeast Tourism Summit Conference that took place in Juneau in July. Three Alaska cruise ports are considering whether to modify their passenger fees to give some short-term relief while…

The Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) prepared the following analysis of cruise ship redeployments on Anchorage in 2010 for the new administration of Mayor Dan Sullivan: “Current cruise redeployments will reduce cruise passengers into Southcentral by 117,000 next year.…