TRANSPORTATION
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Carnival Corp. has enough cash to survive a cruise-less 2021, CEO Arnold Donald told investors Jan. 11. The company reported a net loss of $2.2 billion during the final quarter of 2020 but ended the... Read more
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Congress paid for a second new heavy icebreaker among its year-end spending flurry and also helped Nome move one step closer to having a place to moor it. Inside the federal budget portion omnibus... Read more -
Congress paid for a second new heavy icebreaker among its year-end spending flurry and also helped Nome move one step closer to having a place to moor it. Inside the federal budget portion omnibus... Read more
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Barred from sailing for the last nine months because of the pandemic, several cruise ships are making their way to San Diego, but don’t expect to see thousands of passengers boarding or disembarking... Read more -
Alaska is positioned to possibly become an even more popular destination when travel eventually resumes en masse but oil markets aren’t likely to rebound nearly as well despite relative recent... Read more
TOURISM & TRAVEL
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The Inland Empire 483 miles from the ocean wouldn’t qualify it as a “shore-side excursion” in the traditional sense but that’s exactly how Fairbanks is designated as thousands of cruise ship visitors make their way directly from the dock to the train or bus that takes them to Interior Alaska. -
Alaska has some of the highest hotel occupancy rates in the country on average in the short four-month period from May to September, enough to warrant yet four more hotels on the Anchorage landscape in addition to three that went up last summer.