For the first time ever, tourism was Southeast Alaska's number one wage provider in 2023.
An annual report on Southeast Alaska’s economy shows a region firmly dependent on tourism with a struggling fishing sector. The findings were presented Tuesday at Southeast Conference in Ketchikan.report, which looks at the last calendar year. In her presentation, Schijvens said tourism has become the strong backbone of the panhandle’s economy.
The region had a record-breaking number of cruise passengers last year, and is projected to see a marginal increase for 2024. Schijvens expects that number to flatten and possibly decrease slightly in the coming years. That’s due to agreements in Juneau “Pretty much every single cruise ship that comes into Southeast Alaska comes to Juneau,” she said. “And of course, that could change in the future, and maybe there’ll be one or two that aren’t visiting Juneau, but that’s pretty much the said itinerary. So if there’s passenger limits in Juneau, it ends up being passenger limits more across Southeast as well.”
Seafood was the primary money maker for the region two years ago, but fell sharply last year. That wasn’t for a lack of trying — fishermen landed more pounds of fish than they had in the last decade. But the prices paid for that fish were so low that the overall catch value dropped 20%.
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