Summer tourists in Sitka, seen in the documentary "Cruise Boom." (Courtesy ArtChange, Inc.) Sitka-based filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein’s latest documentary, “Cruise Boom,” premieres nationwide Saturday ...

Voters in Sitka, Alaska, have rejected a proposal to limit cruise tourism. During a special election on Wednesday, 73 percent of voters rejected the ballot measure that would have capped cruise ...

The setting of Sitka, Alaska, in a tranquil bay on Baranof Island, is nothing short of spectacular. Tiny islands dense with evergreen trees dot the blue-green water, which is crisscrossed by dozens of ...

Some of the 2,000 (on average) butts collected during a recent clean-up of Sitka’s Crescent Park strip and downtown. (Amanda Roberts) As Sitka heads toward a record cruise season, with over ...

SITKA — On a recent weekday morning, the weather forecast was looking pretty good for Sitka. The breeze was light, and what people in Southeast Alaska call a sucker hole — a patch of blue sky in an ...

Native culture has long been an attraction for visitors coming to Alaska, and that interest is only growing. Recently, the Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA) relaunched its consumer-facing ...

Last week I manned a booth at a convention trade show in Sitka. The Alaska Travel Industry Association’s end-of-season meetup offers insiders a sneak peek at some of the new travel options around the ...

Unlike big-ship lines, Alaskan Dream Cruises, a Sitka, AK-based line that operates 10 American-flagged vessels, will begin its 10th anniversary season of small-ship Alaska cruises in April. That's ...

A three-day Alaska Heritage and Cultural Tourism Conference took place in Fairbanks last week, highlighting the benefits of integrating Indigenous history into regional tourism efforts. Sitka Tribal ...