Roll Call Alaska 2015
I know its early but we have been planning for the past 3 months. I know its another 15 months at least till we leave but we are just going crazy... So here is our very rough plan overview. Leave mid...
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rkassl wrote:
Considering that many of the business in NW Alberta to Northern British Columbia and definitely the Yukon depend on the tourist trade they sure try to wring out every cent they can from you.
NW Alberta and northern BC are oil and gas territory. Prices are high because the workers in that industry make huge $$$ - tourism is a mere drop in the oil barrel (many RV parks are now open year-round to house them). In the Yukon tourism is much more important, but not as much as you think. If tourism shut down, several hundred people would be out of work in the summer (almost none in the winter), and many of them are seasonal transplants from other places - if the Government shut down, most people would be out of work.
