Cruise companies drop vessels' visits.

AuthorPounds, Nancy
PositionTOURISM

Left to right: Altug Bal, Glacier Brewhouse manager; Dave Kasser, vice president of tourism sales for the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau; John Binldey, president of the Alaska Cruise Association; and Patrick Hoogerhyde, Glacier Brewhouse executive chef, discuss Royal Caribbean International's decision to pull its 2,100-passenger ship, Serenade of the Seas, out of Alaska this summer and redeploy it. The ship potentially would have carried 42,000 passengers. Three of Cruise West's "pocket" ships also will not return: the 96-passenger Spirit of '98, the...

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