Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Assembly Committee of the Whole heard the Visitor Industry Task Force report at its meeting on Monday night
The task force was created in 2019 to explore several questions related to tourism in Juneau. This included looking at the long term plan for the waterfront, Juneau’s attractiveness as a place to visit, and how to get pubic feedback
The task force also found out whether the popular idea of a visitor cap is something that the city could do
Planning manager Alexandra Pierce says visitor caps are not really possible. The persistent idea of a visitor cap. The idea that was floated in the public the summer before last about having a limit of say a million passengers per year and we researched this with some help from the city attorney and found that a cap was not only legally questionable but also fairly logistically impractical. However, there are other methods for limitation on the number of passengers
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The fate of the tourism industry, especially its fate in Juneau and Alaska, was a topic of discussion at the Juneau Assembly meeting Monday evening.
It s still not clear what the 2021Juneau tourists season is going to look like. The Centers for Disease Control says cruise ships need the permission of the ports to be able to dock anywhere.
At the Assembly Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday night, City Manager Rorie Watt says that whatever Juneau does it needs to be in conjunction with other Southeast communities. We re part of a system so any decisions that Juneau makes affect how that system works. So the cruise ship industry s general hope is that the port communities can come up with similar ways to approach things.