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A huge cruise ship dwarfs Spring Point Ledge Light as it enters Portland Harbor in September 2019. Large, lucrative cruise ships are not expected to return to Maine this year.
PORTLAND, Maine State officials have given small, domestic cruise ships permission to return to Maine this summer. But huge, multi-thousand passenger vessels and the megabucks they bring the state in tourist spending and docking fees aren’t coming back anytime soon.
Exact numbers are hard to come by, but state and local officials estimate Maine lost more than $30 million in docking fees and on-shore tourist spending in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic canceled the entire season.
Maine tourism industry expects boost after travel restrictions end Saturday
Residents from all U.S. states will be allowed unrestricted travel to Maine, signifying a potentially booming summer tourism season this year.
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Dylan McKay and Vanessa Cremeans of Salt Lake City, Utah, take a selfie from Dyer Point with Cape Elizabeth Light in the background on April 17. Leaders of Maine s tourism industry are looking forward to the lifting of some travel restrictions on Saturday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
For the first time in more than a year, all U.S. residents soon will be allowed unrestricted travel to Maine, offering a likely boost to the state’s recovering tourism industry.
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Relaxed restrictions and increased capacity has Bar Harbor business owners excited
Gov. Mills Moving Maine Forward reopening plan brings life into the upcoming tourism season after tourist towns were hit hard last summer Author: Sam Rogers (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 6:13 PM EST March 5, 2021 Updated: 10:10 AM EST March 6, 2021
BAR HARBOR, Maine It s not unusual for Bar Harbor to be quiet during the first week of March businesses and restaurants are still weeks away from the typical tourism season. But Gov. Janet Mills Moving Maine Forward plan, announced Friday, sparked life into the idea of having a typical summer in town and across the state.
Lessons learned in a pandemic year January 6, 2021 on News
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND It started out like any other year, but 2020 took a big turn for what some would consider the worst year in recent history.
While a global pandemic slowed our lives to a mere tick tock of the clock, the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis incited protests, and more people turned out to vote than in any other presidential election.
Many watched the world go by from their living rooms or chose to binge watch whatever their favorite streaming platform offered. Others took up hobbies like baking bread or cooking what could no longer be ordered from their favorite restaurant.