Alaska Number Of Cruise Ship Tourists

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Alaska number of cruise ship tourists. Nearly a dozen passengers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of large cruise ships return to Alaska. This year CLIA Alaska estimates that the state will welcome approximately 11 million cruise ship passengers. JUNEAU Alaska KTUU - After two disastrous summers for the visitor industry sector early forecasts project that over 157 million cruise ship passengers could come to Southeast Alaska in 2022.

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That number came to a halt in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mandates decimating Alaskan small businesses and Alaskas economy overall. New projections show the number of cruise ship tourists visiting Southeast Alaska clearing the 15 million mark in 2021. Alaska was expecting a record 14 million cruise visitors.

Ketchikan welcomed its 1 millionth cruise ship visitor Sept. John Binkley the president of Cruise Lines International Association CLIA Alaska said his organization predicts a 19 percent jump from the number of cruise ship visitors in 2017 to the number. Alaska summer cruises are one step closer to reality after President Joe Biden signed the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act into law on Monday allowing ships to bypass.

Some 14 million cruise tourists were projected to visit the region this summer. Tourism sector added more than 2000 annualized jobs to Southeast communities increasing wages by 85 million. 8 That report estimates that over 160000 cruise.

Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska said Wednesday she will introduce legislation to protect the Alaska tourism industry centering on cruises. In 2020 ten new ships and 29 additional port calls are expected to be added while seven ships will be phased out of the region. HOMER More tourists are projected to arrive in Alaska by sea in 2019.