Spotlight: Introducing Kenai Fjord’s new superintendent

Editor’s Note: As part of the centennial celebration of the National Park Service (NPS), Cruise News will profile the superintendents of some of Alaska’s most popular parks. Eric Veach, superintendent, Kenai Fjord National Park Tell me a little bit about…
Serenity journey Northwest passage

Journey through the top of the world

Crystal Serenity’s itinerary takes the ship from Seward to Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, Nome, then across the Beaufort Sea through the Northwest Passage to Greenland, Bar Harbor, Boston and New York City.
Captain Birger on Crystal Serenity

Serenity captain has ties to Alaska

The captain of the Crystal Serenity now plying through the northwest passage offshore arctic Canada is a familiar figure to many in the Alaska cruise industry.
Hospitality at Hotel Captain Cook

Hospitality starts at home

While cruise passengers of the Holland America Line ship the ms Maasdam enjoy an unprecedented overnight stay at the Port of Anchorage on Aug. 22, the tourism industry thanked the nearly 600 crew who work aboard the ship.
Westerdam and Volendam docked in Ketchikan

70 years of showing off the Great Land

Holland America Line is celebrating 70 years of taking cruise passengers to Alaska next year with six ships in the region sailing from Vancouver and Seattle.
Holland America at Alaska Airlines Seafair Torchlight Parade

Koningsdam cruises down the street

Onlookers at the Alaska Airlines Seafair Torchlight Parade in downtown Seattle watched Holland America Line’s Koningsdam cruising down the street.
Cruise ship in Whittier

Whittier has fishing and tourism

Many seafood processing workers travel to Whittier during the summer, when the town has more wage and salary jobs than it has residents.
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