TRANSPORTATION
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Carnival Cruise Line is navigating Florida’s vaccine passport law by adjusting its stance on allowing unvaccinated guests on sailings, but is now requiring they both pay $150 for COVID-19 testing and... Read more -
MIAMI — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is fighting to keep its COVID-19 cruise regulations in place and warned a federal judge that without them, there is increased risk of COVID... Read more
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Ravn Alaska, the state’s biggest rural airline, is considering a proposition to expand services into Asia and the Lower 48. The airline envisions a plan to use the North Terminal at Ted Stevens... Read more
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A Royal Caribbean International cruise ship left from PortMiami with 600 passengers on board June 20 as part of a test sail trip as the cruise industry gears up for a grand restart later this summer... Read more -
The nation’s maritime economy accounted for nearly $400 billion worth of gross domestic product in 2019 and its growth outpaced that of the strong, pre-pandemic U.S. economy overall, according to... 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.