Alaska Cruise Ship Visitors Volume Up

Alaska remains nations 1 cruise destination.

Alaska cruise ship visitors volume up. SITKA Alaska AP Sitka could see nearly a half-million cruise ship visitors next year after a new docking agreement was announced with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Typically this is a round-trip cruise from Seattle or Vancouver then back to the same port with stops at three or four port towns such as Juneau Skagway Ketchikan and either Sitka Haines or Victoria BC. By transportation market 1089700 traveled by cruise ship 750500 were air visitors entered and exited the state by.

Port of Alaska is a Municipality of Anchorage owned facility that serves all of Alaska and the nation. In recent years the global cruise industry. The demographic make-up of.

Its cruise industry roots date back to 1970 under Allen Marine and the company is still run by native Alaskans. Overall marine traffic in Glacier Bay declined. Today the US Senate passed the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act from Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski to temporarily waive the federal requirement for cruise ships transiting to Alaska to stop in Canada.

Alaska is the premier cruise destination market in the United States according to a new economic-impact study released by Cruise Lines International Association CLIA. Alaska Visitor Volume Winter 2018-19 and Summer 2019 McDowell Group Page 4. Cruise volume also increased by 3.

More than half of all visitors coming to Alaska arrive by cruise ship. The statistics showed that in the period May 1 through September 30 the cruise port receives an average of USD 1233 million per day. The 58-passenger ship is the perfect atmosphere for comradery and there are no formal dress nights.

From many previous reviews posted both here on Trip Advisor Alaska and Cruises forums and on Trip Advisors sister site Cruise Critic there appears to be very little difference overall between the actual cruise lines on the Alaska circuit although several Holland America ships are not quite half the size of the ships used by other lines and can get into tighter places near glaciers. Volume by Transportation Market. Number of cruise ship passengers at the port of Tromsø 2009-2019 South Central America.