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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jun 7, 2024, 01:11 PM Jun 2024

Awash in tourists, Juneau prepares to turn some cruise ships away

Alaska’s state capital is set to become the first city in Alaska and one of only a handful in the United States to limit the number of daily cruise ship tourists.

Under the terms of a voluntary agreement announced Monday and effective in 2026, the nation’s four largest cruise lines will schedule ships containing no more than 16,000 standard beds in Juneau per day, what the industry calls “lower berths,” with the limit dropping to 12,000 on Saturdays.

The agreement comes after growing complaints by locals about overcrowding, housing shortages, noise pollution and air pollution.

“The goal and the message here is that Juneau is hitting pause on growth,” said Alexandra Pierce, the city’s tourism manager, of the agreement.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/06/06/awash-in-tourists-juneau-prepares-to-turn-some-cruise-ships-away/

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Awash in tourists, Juneau prepares to turn some cruise ships away (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 OP
Good for them! 2naSalit Jun 2024 #1

2naSalit

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1. Good for them!
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 01:25 PM
Jun 2024

Tourism is out of control and too many who profit from it are using public resources to make their fortune without really taking care of the resources they put under stress by making a business out of them.
I'd like to see more flow restrictions for the national parks and forests out this way, people are tearing them to shreds.


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