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Cruise Town
by KTOO
This year, cruise ship passengers to Juneau, Alaska, outnumbered local residents 35 to 1. Cruise Town is a podcast from KTOO News. It's about how Juneau became a Cruise Town, what it's like to live in a Cruise Town and what the city's future holds in light of the industry's explosive growth.
Episodes
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Season 3, Episode 1: 'Cruise ships are back, baby!'
There were two giant hurdles preventing cruise ships from coming back to Alaska in April when they usually start showing up. For one, the Canadian border is still closed. Also, the CDC banned cruises last year. And even though it lifted that ban, it was replaced with a Conditional Sailing Order...
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Season 2, Episode 4: The season that wasn't
This summer was slated to be Juneau's biggest ever for cruise ship visitors. Instead, 1.4 million cruise ship passengers and hundreds of millions of dollars never arrived in port. In May, we couldn't imagine what an entire year of off-season would be like. It ended up feeling like summer never...
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Season 2, Episode 3: Uncruise
Since this spring, we've been following along as the biggest cruise season in Juneau's history got canceled. In August, Juneau did see some cruise visitors after all. But it was a far cry from the 1.4 million visitors we were expecting -- it was 36 to be exact. The first and only cruise ship to...
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Season 2, Episode 2: What's in a plan?
For the past several months, it's been a lot of "will they or won't they" with regard to the cruise industry coming to Alaska this year. And now that it's clear that they won't, cruise towns in southeast Alaska are thinking about next year. The hope is that by the time April rolls around, the...
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Season 2, Episode 1: They're Not Coming
A lot about Juneau's future is up in the air still, but one thing is certain now: more than a million cruise ship passengers will not be coming to town this summer. Local businesses are already struggling to get by without tourists. By next year, Juneau could look like a very different place. It...
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Episode 6: Five Stars
An Alaska cruise is all about the scenery. And Juneau doesn't disappoint. There's a glacier in town and some of the best whale-watching in the world. But, this episode is about how Alaska can make some people squirm. Because climate change is so in-your-face here. And at some point, tourism is…
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Episode 5: We Almost Lost Yanni
Safety at sea is serious business. And as the industry continues its explosive growth in Juneau, safety concerns are at the top of everyone's list. In this episode, we ask what's the worst thing that could happen? And we talk to the people who have thought about how to prepare for it.
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Episode 4: The Weight of the World
What we know as Juneau has been the home of the Aak'w Kwaan since time immemorial. Some cruise ship tourists are curious about the people who were here long before Cruise Town and long before Juneau. In this episode, we'll meet the cultural interpreters with the difficult task of explaining their...
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Episode 3: Camp Cruise Town
Juneauites are a lot like whales. Some are year-round residents -- enduring or even thriving during the cold and wet off-season. But some migrate in for the summer -- making a splash when they arrive and then leaving again, chasing prey or love or something else equally magnetic. On this episode,...
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Episode 2: The Whale and the Head Tax
Juneau has a new park featuring a life-size statue of a humpback whale breaching from a reflecting pool, complete with water works. The statue was privately funded, but the park where it lives was almost entirely paid for by a controversial per-person tax on cruise ship passengers. It was one of...
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Episode 1: The Making of a Cruise Town
On this episode, we go back -- not to the 1880s when Juneau was founded and steamships started coming north, but to the 1980s when Juneau made a conscious decision to change its destiny. We meet two people who were there when an old mining town sold its history and transformed itself into Cruise...
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Coming this November: Cruise Town
This year, cruise ship passengers outnumbered local residents in Juneau 35 to 1. That's why the KTOO news team is making a podcast about how we got here, what it's like to live here and what the city's future holds in light of the industry's explosive growth.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This year, cruise ship passengers to Juneau, Alaska, outnumbered local residents 35 to 1. Cruise Town is a podcast from KTOO News. It's about how Juneau became a Cruise Town, what it's like to live in a Cruise Town and what the city's future holds in light of the industry's explosive growth.
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How many episodes does Cruise Town have?
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What is Cruise Town about?
This year, cruise ship passengers to Juneau, Alaska, outnumbered local residents 35 to 1. Cruise Town is a podcast from KTOO News. It's about how Juneau became a Cruise Town, what it's like to live in a Cruise Town and what the city's future holds in light of the industry's explosive growth.
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