Cruise Town

No discussion of cruise ships would be complete without talking about maritime disasters. Especially maritime disasters involving international superstar musicians.

Cruise Town’s cultural interpreters have the difficult task of explaining their history, their culture, their art — their existence — to someone who just got off a cruise ship.

Thousands of seasonal workers come to Juneau to work in tourism. Most of them young. They can make Cruise Town feel a lot like a summer camp.

Juneau was one of the first places in the world to charge a per person tax on cruise passengers. Also, it got sued.

On this episode, we meet two people who were in Juneau when this old mining town embraced its history and transformed itself into Cruise Town.