Tourists spent more in Southeast this season

Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center Director John Neary oversees a destination that attracted about half of Southeast’s 1 million cruise-ship passengers this season. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
About a million cruise-ship passengers from around the world sailed through Southeast’s Inside Passage this season. Some ships continued on to Whittier, Kodiak and even Unalaska.
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The overall numbers are around the same as the previous two years. But destinations and