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At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season.
The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience.
But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if not for the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the entire Alaskan cruising industry.
In an interview in 2014, Laurance said his projections were simply based on a 10 percent increase every year.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks during an April 9 press briefing to announce a package of relief for tourism businesses impacted by the 2020 and 2021 disruptions to the summer season brought on by COVID-19 mitigation measures. On April 20 he announced the state would seek to join a lawsuit by the State of Florida against the Centers for Disease Control to lift the current no-sail order on cruise ships. (Photo/Kevin Goodman/Office of the Governor)
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is trying to salvage Alaska’s fast-approaching summer tourism season through a Florida court.
The governor’s office announced April 20 that the Dunleavy administration would attempt to intervene in the State of Florida’s lawsuit against the Centers for Disease control to lift the federal agency’s Conditional Sailing Order that currently prohibits large cruise ships from sailing in domestic waters.
Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Apr 26, 2021
Harry Race will hold a clinic with the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine 11 A.M. to 12 noon Wednesday, April 28, at the Sitka Firehall. After a review of data the CDC has recommended the resumption of the J&J vaccine, after a nationwide “pause” on April 13. That “pause,” however, was par for the course for any new medication, according to the state’s top pharmacist. (KCAW photo/Berett Wilber)
The US Centers for Disease Control on Friday (4-23-21) recommended the resumption of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. After an extensive review of the data following reports of a rare blood clotting condition, the agency advised “that the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine’s known and potential benefits outweigh its known and potential risks.” Sitka’s Harry Race Pharmacy will have the J&J vaccine (which requires only a single dose) available at its next clinic 11 AM – 12 noon Wednesday, April 28, at the Sitka Firehall.
Is Time Running Out for U.S. Cruises to Resume This Summer?
The cruise industry in the U.S. remains suspended, is time running out to resume operations this summer? Issues still need to be resolved.
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The cruise line executives will be wondering what steps they will have to take to get their ships sailing from U.S. ports this summer. And rightly so, with only 60 days to go until the start of July, the month most cruise lines have set as their intended start-up month, time is running out.
Everywhere except for cruise ships,