Tourist’s demands for more ‘real Alaska’ experiences have fostered the growth of a new movement — cultural tourism — and a new travel guide insert has been created to address that need.
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Edenshaw, who is Tlingit and Haida, explained how a new travel guide insert will help bring tourists the “real Alaska” experience they’re hungry for in an authentic and respectful way. A statewide contingent of Alaska Native creators and artists jumped on board for the project. This mirrors how in Alaska’s history, Natives did not sit on the periphery but were in fact central to the development of the territory. It’s also more in line with the Alaska of today and of the future, says project contributor and owner of production company Midnight Run LLC, Mary Goddard.
Sarah Leonard, President and CEO of the Alaska Trade Industry Association, explained how that organization allocated some of the money for the project from pandemic-related economic development funds. The economic benefits of the new guide are obvious, given tourism’s status as a major industry in the state. But there’s also an emotional significance that is difficult to quantify.
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