Many Alaska tourism operators, anticipating a strong summer, entered the season with concerns they wouldn’t find enough employees.
Holland America Line, a sister company to Princess Cruises owned by Carnival, said Monday that staffing shortages in the hospitality industry had forced it to cancel some itineraries for a tour package in Alaska, the, which takes visitors between Fairbanks and Dawson City in Canada, according to Erik Elvejord, a spokesman with Holland America.
In Alaska, Princess Cruises also operates the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge and the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness, near Denali National Park and Preserve, as well as lodges in Fairbanks and Kenai. Ronald Simpson owns a bar and inn in Copper Center, and said the lodge closure will mean less business for his bar. The lodge workers were patrons, he said.
He had strong room reservations from tourists at his inn earlier this year. But a higher-than-normal amount of guests have canceled, perhaps related to concerns about inflation, he said.
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