Podcasts by Cruise Town
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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Season 3, Episode 1: 'Cruise ships are back, baby!' from 2021-07-21T20:28:32
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 cr...
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Season 2, Episode 4: The season that wasn't from 2020-12-31T00:36:11
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...
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Season 2, Episode 3: Uncruise from 2020-08-11T22:16:54
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 ...
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Season 2, Episode 2: What's in a plan? from 2020-07-29T01:05:56
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 ...
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Season 2, Episode 1: They're Not Coming from 2020-06-17T18:51:03
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 summe...
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Episode 6: Five Stars from 2020-03-25T23:25:19
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 ep...
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Episode 5: We Almost Lost Yanni from 2019-12-03T23:35:50
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 episod...
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Episode 4: The Weight of the World from 2019-11-27T06:42:10
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 befor...
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Episode 3: Camp Cruise Town from 2019-11-20T08:10:34
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 summe...
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Episode 2: The Whale and the Head Tax from 2019-11-13T03:48:14
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 funde...
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Episode 1: The Making of a Cruise Town from 2019-11-06T01:50:11
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 decisio...
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Coming this November: Cruise Town from 2019-10-22T19:53:34
This year, cruise ship passengers outnumbered local residents in Juneau 35 to 1. That’s why the KTOO news team is making a ...
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