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New Zealand vs Alaska: What Cruise Scale Really Looks Like

Why the usual comparison is built on a number that does not measure what it claims

Our ideas and proposals for the future of New Zealand cruise — forward-looking opinion, not statements of fact.

Alaska publishes no port-call count, and the 4,911 figure everyone quotes is a database row count including Seattle, Vancouver and Glacier Bay. The comparison that does work: Alaska's cruise industry lands on 70,613 people in Southeast Alaska — and Skagway, population 1,123, handled 1.36 million passenger visits in 2025.

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