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Article: Icy Strait Point: a destination of economy: tourist attraction in Southeast declares success.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Three years ago, Icy Strait Point was an experiment-in-progress, with well-wishers and competitors holding their breaths to see how the new tourist attraction would fare. Now, the region's first dedicated cruise ship port seems to have proven itself to just about everyone-the number of vessels putting in for the day is now more than twice what it was the first two years.
"2006 was our first year to mature a little bit and 2007 is the year we are going to stabilize and really become a mature investment," said Bob Wysocki, president and CEO of Huna Totem Corp., the village ANCSA corporation and the majority owner of Icy Strait Point.
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