December 2017

Dan Sullivan successfully offered an amendment to the Senate tax-cut bill to eliminate a provision that would have had severe, negative impacts on Alaska.

A recently released study found that Alaska is the premier cruise destination market in the United States.

Princess Cruises is celebrating 50 years sailing to the Great Land with its largest deployment ever, featuring the debut of Royal Princess.

The company plans to replace the 2,170-passenger Celebrity Infinity in Alaska with the bigger, 2,852-passenger Celebrity Eclipse for the summer of 2019.

In addition to banning single-use plastics, cruise ships recycle, on average, 60 percent more waste per person than the average person recycles on shore each day, adding up to more than 80,000 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum and glass recycled each year.

To see recycling in action aboard Disney Cruise Line, watch this video.

The Port of Seattle welcomed a record 1,071,594 passengers through its cruise terminals this year, with an estimated 1,092,345 expected in 2018.

The Alaska Chamber has adopted several advocacy policy positions important to the visitor industry.