Alaska tourist spot weighs cruise ship ban
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- One hot spot is looking at a partial ban on cruise ships as tourists overtake the city as other popular vacation destinations start to restrict visitors.
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I can’t imagine people bringing cash into my community by the literal boat load and then treating them this way. Be very careful what you wish for.
The only "community" that benefits from these behemoth cruise ships is the little strip of tourist shops, restaurants , and tour outfits at the dock. (And since the cruises have meals included the benefit to local restaurants is not that great.). Most cruise tourists don't even walk two blocks up the hill to visit the museum or year-around shops. The only benefit to residents is the constant noise of little planes and helicopters flying out over the glacier during cruise ship season. We all have to deal with limits. Limiting the number of cruise ships coming into Juneau is perfectly reasonable.
People don't want tourists until the money stops rolling in and the economy starts dying down.
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you? You are saddled with the very thing that drove you away.
It's not that. There's too many and the area people live is small. Also it's very sick and selfish of you to not want them to have ONE day of a break from all the tourist .
All of the cruise lines will just adjust their schedules so that they aren't in Juneau on Saturdays. Nothing newsworthy about this.
That was the idea - so locals can have an off day.
Not true. They will just not come. And hundreds of businesses will be affected, as well as thousands of jobs. And I live in Juneau. I can 100% tell you those locals don’t support our businesses.
Imagine going on vacation and being greeted by locals shooting you with water guns.
That's a loud, vocal mob of water toting complainers.
Instead of harassing tourists, they should work with their local political process and pass new regulations to limit tourism, **if that is what the majority of people there want**. You know, like a democracy. Not the loudest voice with water guns win thing.
I just went to Juneau last month and didn’t notice any locals being rude. I think it’s kind of funny how the local on here thinks her friendliness is a commodity. She can tell me to go screw myself and I’ll return the favor. I don’t need her permission to visit Juneau.
I live in Asheville, Nc. In the last ten years it seems that rent has quadrupled and its really hard to find a decent place to rent. I can relate to these locals in the story.
Think about how much money these cruise ships brings to the city…
no I dont.but how high upper deck for a carpenter walk up stair....to maintent interior.
Interesting ... reporter states "respect the locals"; however, your story shows tourists respecting locals but locals not respecting tourists that the local government
invited.
Government invited vs local invited.
Exactly! The water throwing incident was really unnecessary!
Too much of a good thing. Wherever people go they leave a mess.
Next year the same people will complain about lack of tourism revenue for the region
I cruise every year and often feel guilty getting dumped into little towns for the day with a couple hundred of my travels mates. I think limiting these ports to only one or two ships daily, and having a day off every week is a great idea. Also, limiting ship size to say 2000 passengers in smaller ports. I travel on a 750 passenger ship for this reason.
More like 1 ship a week. Small ships not mega ships
I think that’s fair. They could also limit the amount of people getting off the ships at some of these ports.
Influencers have ruined so many neat places. I cringe anytime I hear a video start with “This is what I did on my xx day trip to xxxxx…”.
Happening around the world........places are being loved to the point that those that live there want their home back ....8 billion and counting world population
We just did this Alaska cruise just a few weeks ago. Juneau is a beautiful city.
Same here, went two weeks ago!
😂😂😂 you should lucky to have a booming cruise city thats more money for your city duh yall Alaska ppl need to be grateful I wish Mississippi had tourism like this
Be careful what you wish for.
Don't they have the Gulf, beaches, condos, casinos, etc?
Japan is having that problem with tourist. The tourist are overwhelming and interfering with the geisha girls trying to go to work, shopping, etc etc.
I cruise because I enjoy the ship and all of the amenities. I rarely disembark ports of call for just this reason...too damn crowded!
Just got home from a cruise to Alaska. On our excursions , the local tour guides actually thanked us for visiting because they have maybe 4-5 months to benefit from the revenue the tourists generate.
Limit the size of the ship .
Wow! People don’t like people anywhere anymore. Sad.
1 day off on Saturday is being more than fair from the locals.
It’s as if asking people to behave is out of the question.
Social media ruines everything its like a mad house everywhere its pathetic. People just go for pictures and likes 🤬
Sure social media is the problem, but not the fact that the world is too damn overcrowded.
@@RockPunkFloyd and unbalance in fact........
Unless you're moving to Alaska there's nothing much to do other than take pictures.....
I don’t think the tourist trap shops are complaining 😂
I never thought about it, but seems true. For such a small town, it's easier to notice the tourist overwhelming the town. I live on Oahu and if I were stuck in Waikiki, I probably would need a break from all that chaos too. GO Juneau 👍🏽
As they should. These tourists are disrespectful and cause destruction and chaos.
Seems like a good thing for the town and its residents, not sure why Karen would be opposed?
Correction, only 1,599,999 cruise passengers visited Juneau in 2023.
those are so difficult to walk along
That little 5 euro fee in Venice will do nothing..
Alaska cruises only operate from May to September so the residents of Juneau have from October to April to have days for themselves.
Those are the colder winter months though. It's up to them. They'll have the same arguments Key West had in 2020 before passing their cruise ship law.
@floridaman2214 what arguments
Just a thought, everyone who wants to limit tourists visiting their area, is required to not leave the the town they live in.
I am from Southeast Alaska, I work in Juneau and live in Ketchikan. Big cruise is buying up properties kicking locals out and putting their people in. They come in thinking they own our communities they are arrogant as well. I support to one day ban. They put a tremendous strain on our first responders as well.
If they bought property than they are part of community. Like it or not. Welcome to thesaurus.
Come on Alaskan. It’s seasonal it’s not even year round, only May to September. You might regret the loss of revenue just like Venice
I live in Alaska. Cruise ship towns are a local joke. They are not Alaska. If there was a worse way to see Alaska I could not think of it.
It’s always interesting that the only locals the media speaks to is those who are against tourism. Please take the time to talk to the rest of us! I own a tour company in Juneau and our city works closely with the cruise industry to work together on managing the industry. Please do stories on the Tourism Best Management Practices, which is more than 20 years old and is a program created by the local tour companies to support the industry AND to support locals. There are processes in place and we keep making big changes. However, there will always be those few who no matter what we do won’t rest until more than half of us are out of business. It’s so disappointing and incredibly disheartening.
Well, the problem with tourists isn't their money.
- It's the meatheads on vacation who think they're by-God entitled to the best of everything just because they paid for a cruise.
- It's the litter and garbage they leave behind. And that's not even getting into the extra burden on sewage system [ALWAYS an issue in Alaska] with each ship dumping multiple thousands of gallons of literal crap.
- It's all the times they DON'T spend money. They just come in, take pictures, and are back on the bus /cruise ship in half a day.
- It's the extra drunks roaming around town making asses of themselves.
- It's rise in the crime rate because people on vacation don't think of the consequences of their actions.
- And it's the not being able to go to the places you love in the town where you live because they're jam packed with a bunch of selfie-sticks with feet.
Tour operators sell your town and bring in money, that's all very true. But the price you pay is some pretty annoying inconveniences and some serious outright problems. Tourism is nice for the city, but oftentimes it's lousy for the residents.
I can understand both sides on this hope they come to a good compromise.
Oh great…I’m going in august 😳😬
One less day = more people on the other days. Booking my trip now
These cities don’t want tourists until their economy tanks and realizes that they need the tourists money.
Are people trying to run from the heat?
1 day a week off to recover is a quite different thing than what's implied in this click-baity headline!
Who else going to buy the overpriced crab legs
Selective outrage. Do they complain about too many flights coming in...
This is misleading they don’t speak for Alaska or the towns they are entitled. They don’t ask the tribal community or their representatives ? One sided opinions. Alaska welcomes you all !
Travel off season. What is the business owners saying? Tourist spend $$$$.
Something else is going on they won’t say. Maybe crime is going up or something else they won’t say is my guess. These small towns all have a small police force, more crime they can’t handle it.
Now everyone fly in!!
basically a third world country in that state, extreme levels of poverty and some of the least educated people imaginable
their peoples would miss out on civilization and consumer goods coming from cruise ships, that state is already failing in multiple academic and literacy ratings.... lets not deprive their stunted population of culture
Countries that require visitor visa should limit or place cap on how may visa are en each year, not fair for tourists to be harassed be locals.
Glad we went on our cruise before the homies started complaining about our tourist $$
Many places in the world are looking to limit tourists and charge more. I live in New Zealand and our visitors are half of what they were before 2019, but it is far more expensive now to come here, therefore the value of our tourism has increased, less people paying more is far better then double that amount paying half, because it is easier to manage high end tourism compared to budget tourism, and a better experience for the tourists and the host nation
Whats up with this global anti...reduced tourism that locals have? Japan, Spain now US Alaska?
wonder what the local lbusiness think about this, and yet the residents need to realize the value of their property depends upon a good economy, and that means tourism. government is not the only employeers in Juneau. . and without the revenue generated by tourism, whom is going to pay for police, fire, dept of public works, and more.
They seem like they don’t want tourist dollars?
😂 are people just pissed off that when they go on vacation they get stuck with too many people doing the same thing that they're doing and they're always thinking that when they go on vacation they're hoping to basically have the location that they're going to all to themselves
It's great that people want to see the world before they die
I can never unsee Strahan's teeth
I took a pause by cancelling my very expensive Alaskan cruise and opted for a Mexican Riviera that was half the price!! I understand the impact one can have on Alaska. However I have no interest in going anymore. That goes for every city in the world that is opposed to cruising. If they don't want you there, why would you have any interest in going. Just look at what happened to the tourists in Barcelona. No thanks
Everyone must like you?
@@miket8909 I wish that was the case but would you travel to a place where you didn't feel welcomed. If so, why?
Juneau is a major city? Typical L A reporting
If Alaska doesn’t want cruise ships they should quit going problem solved.
Then wait 1 year maybe 2 and see what happens. They’ll be complaining about the cities not making money.
Actually it’s the cruise industries fault with all these big ships there’s to many people on them for these places to handle.
I can see why the locals are
P!ssed, I went to Bar Harbor last year by car. The 1 day a cruise ship was there it was a nightmare you couldn’t walk the streets without shoving your way thru crowds of people.
Maybe have 1 small ship a week there then everybody is happy.
Maybe these cities should tell us if there’s problems, are the locals being treated like crap by the cruisers or is it the other way around or both?
Something tells me that has a lot to do with this.
OMG 😳
Can anyone say sustainable population?…
What's caused this? Social media?
People desperate to post something every time they shovel fork into their mouth.
And when the people there can't pay there bills they'll want all the tourist back. Thanks for your money now go away and leave us alone till we need you to come back again.
What a bunch of babies.. If you don't want tourist visiting your home then don't live in tourist locations.. Move to places with lower populations and not pretty mountains, oceans and lakes... It's not supernatural if you live in really pretty places then eventually people find out about those places and move or visit the pretty places on earth. To be rude to visitors coming to see your country is just being a snotty little kid about things, IMO.
Maybe they have lived there for decades. Did you think about that before writing your stupid comment?
I live on the SE coast in Alaska about 90 miles north of Juneau. It's the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Snow covered mountains in every direction. Our community of 1,500 people limits the large cruise ships to just one per week. We just don't have the capacity to handle 2,000 visitors off a ship that size. We don't have a hospital or pharmacy. Our health clinic has two beds in the ER. We have four Police officers but only two work the same shift.
It's a magical place to live, rural and remote, very much removed from the outside world, that's why people want see it. That's why it's so important that residents protect and preserve what makes this place magical.
I agree about the snotty little kid aspect. It was very disrespectful of those locals to do to that to the tourists in I believe it was Venice.
@chilkat_river What does lack of health care matter, though? If they get hurt, they travel to a hospital, the same as you. If they need meds, you mark it up and plan for next year to have more. If there are no hotels, they load back up on the ship. I understand not wanting visitors, I'm an ogre at heart, but picketing and spraying tourists with water is just inhospitable and extremely rude. Places never stay the same forever, and sometimes you just have to move deeper in the woods, I suppose.
How does this affect LeBrons legacy
Let's make Earth Day a day of Cooling. Our on the move planet is burned up!
Oh, you don't have to tell me twice - I'll be spending my money where my money is more appreciated, thank you...
Lol
THANKS COVID.
All cruise ships and private planes should be banned, period . The amount of fuel wasted and damage done is not sustainable.
You are correct. But it will never happen, so might as well profit from it.
Then your automobile should be banned too.
Money makes the rules, not a dried up lesbian.