By THERESA NORTON | TravelPulse (Tribune News Service) | Published: April 26, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Alaska is open for visitors! That was the message shared by local and state tourism officials last week during the virtual event “Live from Alaska, hosted by Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA).” “Alaska is open and doing an exceptional job managing the pandemic,” said Sarah Leonard, president and CEO of ATIA. “Partly because we know how to social distance in our wide-open spaces, but mostly because our state did a phenomenal job with the vaccine rollout.”