KLAWOCK — Featuring sport fishing, culinary experiences, wildlife viewing and totem carving traditions, Alaska’s next cruise ship destination is being built near the Tlingit village of Klawock. Oceania Cruises visited on May 24, with three additional calls in the 2023 season. Na-Dena`, the joint venture between Alaska Native corporations Doyon, Limited and Huna Totem Corporation, […]
Alaska was anticipated to welcome 1.3 million tourists by cruise ship in 2020 before the pandemic brought tourism to a halt. The economic loss from a canceled cruise ship season in 2020 alone totals $3 billion, with 2,180 businesses at direct risk – many of which are small family owned businesses. In early April, Governor […]
April 20, 2021 (Juneau, AK) – Governor Mike Dunleavy has announced the State of Alaska is joining a Florida lawsuit against the Federal Center for Disease Control (CDC). The lawsuit challenges the CDC’s job-killing shutdown of the cruise industry through its Conditional Sailing Order on the grounds that it goes beyond the scope of the CDC’s […]