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Last week the cruise line threatened to pull their ships out of Florida.
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Norwegian Cruise Line CEO talks vaccine clash with Florida government
Harry Sommer discusses his company s decision to possibly avoid all Florida ports over the state s refusal to allow vaccination checks and how it could affect future cruises.ABC News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law earlier this month that prohibits businesses from requiring customers or employees to show proof of COVID-19 vaccinations. This presents a potential problem for major cruise lines that have relied on Florida ports and referred to the vaccines as game changers in their restart-operation plans.
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Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | May 7, 2021
US Sen. Dan Sullivan met in a socially-distanced roundtable with stakeholders in Sitka’s visitor industry on May 4, 2021. He and other senators from cruising states have tried to push through legislation to relax CDC rules and federal regulations that are preventing large cruise ships from sailing this season. “Every day, every hour that we’re not resolving this makes it a little less likely that we’re going to be able to resolve it,” he said. (KCAW photo/Robert Woolsey)
Alaska’s visitor industry is holding out hope that large cruise ships may be allowed to sail sometime this season possibly by July. But Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan says it would require policy changes on both sides of the US- Canada border for that to happen, and time is tight.
Alaska travel industry figures raise concerns about CDC’s new rules for cruise lines
Posted by Eric Stone | May 7, 2021
The cruise ship Golden Princess docks in Juneau in 2013. (Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska)
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says its latest guidance for cruise ship operators could allow passenger voyages to resume by midsummer.
But travel industry leaders in Southeast Alaska are raising concerns about the CDC’s new rules.
Travel Juneau’s Liz Perry says a portion of the rules on shore excursions caught her eye. The CDC says cruise ship operators must “prohibit self-guided or independent exploration by passengers during port stops.”