{"id":4261,"date":"2015-10-07T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/nps-selects-companies-to-offer-exclusive-tours-of-glacier-bay\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:05:46","slug":"nps-selects-companies-to-offer-exclusive-tours-of-glacier-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/nps-selects-companies-to-offer-exclusive-tours-of-glacier-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"NPS selects companies to offer exclusive tours of Glacier Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service has selected the businesses that will provide exclusive tours in Glacier Bay beginning in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Five-year concession contracts were awarded to four businesses: Alaska Dream Cruises, American Cruise Lines, Inc., Un-Cruise Adventures and Lindblad Expeditions, Inc. Contracts will be effective Jan. 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The new contracts will implement changes to reduce wilderness impacts for off-vessel activities, and through a cost-recovery program will provide National Park Service rangers to be on board each vessel to \u201cenhance the passenger experience,\u201d according to a news release from the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service has selected the businesses that will provide exclusive tours in Glacier Bay beginning in the spring. Five-year concession contracts were awarded to four businesses: Alaska Dream Cruises, American Cruise Lines, Inc., Un-Cruise Adventures and Lindblad Expeditions, Inc. Contracts will be effective Jan. 1, 2016. The new contracts will implement changes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}