Tourism

In Juneau, hundreds of millions of tourism spending at stake as the Trump Administration’s tariffs shake the global economy.

Five staff will be ready to greet the first cruise visitors of 2025 on Monday and the area will continue opening intermittently throughout the month.

The new petition comes less than a year after Juneau voters shot down a ballot initiative to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays.

Members voted 8-1 in favor of the development of Huna Totem Corporation’s proposed downtown dock after a years-long process.

There will be at least eight people working at the glacier this summer as cultural ambassadors. They’re employed by the local tribe and teach visitors about Lingít history, culture and connections to the land.

The Assembly will vote on whether to lease city-owned tidelands, the submerged land in the Gastineau Channel, for the project. Without a tidelands lease, the dock can’t move forward.