However, the seek for new markets coupled with client demand for more “exotic” ports of call has led to an increase within the demand for extra distant itineraries. For example, 600,000 cruise passengers visited Alaska during the annual season from May to September 1999. Three hundred thousand of those passengers visited the port of Anchorage. Direct expenditures by the cruise business have been $103 million; expenditures by passengers added an additional $28 million. In addition, the industry paid $2 million in native, state, and federal taxes and charges for providers within the port of Anchorage .
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