{"id":318,"date":"2010-02-17T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.baremetal.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:50:42","slug":"taxing-time-for-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Time for Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/alaskaship.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210 alignright\" title=\"alaskaship\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/alaskaship.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>While suppliers, retailers and operators continue to be concerned by the diminishing cruise market to Alaska, the good news is that the most northern state continues to be serviced by 10 cruise lines that will take you through the Inside Passage, to the Gulf of Alaska or on small-ship expeditions.<br \/>\nAs always, the market will dictate the success of Alaska cruises. When the price becomes too steep for cruisers to enjoy the magnificent glaciers, the volume of passengers will fall, and that\u2019s why Alaska cruise suppliers are petitioning legislators for tax cuts (as <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/alaskamap1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-212\" title=\"alaskamap\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/alaskamap1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>in head taxes, gambling taxes and regulatory fees).<br \/>\nIf you find there are fewer ships and fewer cruises to choose from, don\u2019t blame the cruise companies, which can only address customer demand while still turning a profit. Maybe the financial crunch has to hurt even more than a drop in 142,000 passengers before Alaska legislators make visits to their beautiful state more appealing to cruise budgets.<br \/>\nIn Alaska, the cruise season is relatively short and when it comes to shoulder seasons they\u2019re relatively cold. A cold shoulder is what cruise companies are getting from the state government\u2026so far.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While suppliers, retailers and operators continue to be concerned by the diminishing cruise market to Alaska, the good news is that the most northern state continues to be serviced by 10 cruise lines that will take you through the Inside Passage, to the Gulf of Alaska or on small-ship expeditions. As always, the market will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=318\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxing Time for Alaska<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31,15],"tags":[45,46,47],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-cruising","tag-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}