Participants must be at least 10 years old. Tours are offered daily from mid-May through mid-September typically in the early ...

The aurora visible from west Fairbanks on Nov. 11, 2025. The northern lights are a huge draw for tourists in the dark, winter months. Travel industry experts expect Alaska to have a softer tourism ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to ...

Alaska has always sold a certain kind of freedom: the idea that you can still find a country so big and so empty that the map feels unfinished. What has changed is the size of the audience. Alaska ...

Alaska tourism operators say the season seems a little off after years of strong growth in the industry, with some operators seeing evidence that the Trump administration’s confrontational approach to ...

Locals and tourists came together at the 2023 Anchorage Downtown Partnership's Summer Solstice festivities on June 24, 2023. (Valerie Kern / Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s tourism industry has been ...

Visitor numbers soar: Alaska saw a record 3.08 million visitors in 2024-25, with cruises contributing the majority of arrivals. Expanding cruise offerings: Major cruise lines are adding ships and ...

Every Alaskan knows the pride of seeing someone visit our state for the first time. They step off a plane or cruise ship, take a breath of fresh air and can hardly believe what they see: mountains, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale carcasses left ...

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines announced a new non-stop flight from Hawaiʻi to California just in time for summer ...