Alaska’s interior cruise tourism turns from rail to bus to speed visits


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This is a year of transitions in Alaska tourism, one that will produce both minor adjustments and game-changers that will alter the market in the years to come.

Two tour companies are changing how they will move tourists in and out of Fairbanks. Princess Alaska Tours and Holland America told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that visitors to Denali National Park will cover the trip north to Fairbanks by bus rather than rail car starting in 2014. Princess will begin the change this year. Spokesman Bruce Bustamant