Tourism

Workers sought a wage increase and to preserve brakeman positions, which the company considered eliminating.

The Veilbreaker Skybridges are suspended 2,500 feet above the valley floor.

With tour bus visits to the Mendenhall Glacier sold out halfway through the season, tourists are increasingly using the city bus to get to and from Juneau’s top destination.

Sitka-based Allen Marine Tours is one of the first tour companies in the region to adopt a carbon offset program. 

Passengers aboard the cruise ship Ambition had just arrived Sunday in the port of Tórshavn in the Danish territory when they caught the spectacle, part of a long-standing and highly scrutinized local tradition.

Norwegian Cruise Lines abruptly canceled the rest of its season’s stops in Valdez late last month, leaving local businesses scrambling. The city said the cancellations account for about a third of the expected cruise guests this summer. And for at least one tourism company, the Norwegian passengers made up nearly all of its business. Brian…

In March, the State Department said the standard processing time for a new or renewed passport can take up to 13 weeks. But many passport seekers are finding that the wait is well beyond that.

Tour operators will face limits in the second half of the summer season on permits for tours to the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area.

The strike won’t happen right away, but the union says negotiations are “in limbo” after a negotiating session over the holiday weekend failed to resolve what they describe as a 6-year dispute over compensation, staffing and safety.

The city administrator said there were so many people in town, computers slowed to a crawl and phones stopped working at City Hall.