tourism

Tourism took a serious hit last year worldwide, with travel restricted and people staying home. The Kenai Peninsula got a little bump from in-state travel…

If you’ve driven through the Kenai Peninsula recently, you’ve likely noticed traffic is back.Roads are again seeing the traffic they saw in summer 2019,…

Regulations for halibut charters are looser this summer for the second year in a row. The bodies regulating halibut fishing in Alaska relaxed restrictions…

Three agencies on the Kenai Peninsula are splitting over $840,000 to market their areas to visitors.The Homer and Seward chambers of commerce and the…

The western Kenai Peninsula is car territory. Even for locals, a car is pretty necessary to run most errands or to take part in most fishing, kayaking or…

All communities on the Kenai Peninsula rely on tourism to some extent. But Seward relies more on the cruise industry, which has largely been on pause…

This year has been a rough one for tourism businesses everywhere, but especially in Alaska.Because of the coronavirus pandemic, very few out of state…

To require 14 days of quarantine or not to require 14 days of quarantine — that is the question state officials might answer today. While many of the…

If you hadn’t noticed, they’re here. And with the Kenai river dipnet fishery set to open next week, the flow of tourists through the central peninsula…

Summer Lazenby, executive director of the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council, and Sarah Leonard, president of the Alaska Travel Industry…