What are popular cruise tour vacations?

What are popular cruise tour vacations?

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One of the developments in the industry has also been combining a cruise with a land vacation experience, which we call cruise tours. For years, they have been very popular in Alaska. Alaska is a destination that you have to really cruise to, because you can only see Alaska from either the air or from a ship. Juneau, the capital of Alaska, you cannot even drive into. You can only fly into Juneau, or take a ship there. It's such a rugged country. It's become very popular to combine an Alaska cruise with a land tour. On the land tour, you get on a train or a motor coach, and you tour the interior of Alaska. What is very popular is Mount McKinley, better known as Denali, the local name, to see the mountain, and to see nature and wildlife. That's a very common experience. Europe, now, has seen an incredible growth in cruise tour vacations where you can combine a cruise of Europe with a land vacation, because you cannot get to all of Europe by ship or by sea. That's becoming popular in different parts of the world.