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Plan your wilderness adventure trip or ecotourism vacation to Alaska by using our Plan Your Trip to Alaska search of AWRTA wilderness-dependent ecotourism businesses. You can search for businesses offering: natural history tours, rafting, fishing, kayaking, hiking, backpacking, wilderness lodges, hunting, and day ocean cruises & charters trips to Alaska's wild lands. Explore Alaska with tourism businesses committed to Ecotourism Guidelines, supporting tourism planning efforts with our Guiding Alaska Tourism program, and traveling with care and concern for protecting Alaska's environment and wilderness areas. Some of our members provide their customers an opportunity to directly contribute to efforts to protect & conserve Alaska's natural resources through our Dollars a Day for Conservation program. Climate Change-you CAN make a difference! Alaska is the first to feel the ecological implications of global climate change, as well as its affect on the tourism industry. AWRTA is partnering with Sustainable Travel International and MyClimate to allow travelers to neutralize their tourism related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to global warming. To learn more, click here or visit www.My-Climate.com. To offset your air travel, click here. Join a Collective Voice for Wilderness-Dependent Businesses The Alaska Wilderness Recreation & Tourism Association (AWRTA) is a members-driven trade association formed to be a collective voice for wilderness-dependent businesses. We advocate for the sustainability of Alaska's natural and cultural resources, responsible tourism and tourism planning for communities. AWRTA members abide by the voluntary Ecotourism Guidelines adopted by the membership in 1995. To learn more about AWRTA's goals, the benefits of AWRTA membership, and how to become an AWRTA member, visit the About AWRTA page.

"The beauty of Alaska cannot be put into words." -Ester McNeil, Middlebury Alaska. Imagine your vacation in Alaska for one moment. Your delight when you spot a grizzly bear with a cub or two in tow. That instant when the silence of a misty fjord is shattered by a pod of giant humpback whales, breaching high into the air, then crashing back against the sea. While your floatplane flies over crystal glaciers, toward the midnight sun, remember: This is Alaska. This is real. This is the adventure of a lifetime. "It would take a lifetime to experience everything Alaska has to offer." -Charmaine Curtis, Seattle Traveling in Alaska is like traveling no other place on earth. There are 586,000 square miles here, and almost that many possibilities. Choose from wildlife viewing, sea kayaking and guided glacier hikes. Relax aboard a one-day cruise, pan for gold, bait a rod for Alaska’s world famous King salmon fishing. "On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate Alaska as a 20." -Richard Ulmer, Jacksonville Alaska is a grand American Vacation destination you don’t want to miss! Use this site to plan your travel to Alaska and/or Alaska vacation today: create a personal itinerary and get special deals on an unforgettable adventure to Alaska! Select My Alaska at the top of the page to set up a personal account to store your Alaska vacation information. Register once and then update as often as you like. Alaska - Beyond your dreams. Within your reach

Welcome to Denali National Park Alaska, home to majestic Mt. McKinley and Doyon Tourism. Doyon Native Corporation is the owner and proprietor of three incredible Denali National Park travel companies, each offering Alaska visitors unparalleled opportunities to experience Denali National Park. Doyon’s tourism properties in Denali National Park consist of the Kantishna Roadhouse, a deluxe backcountry hotel lodge located nearly 100 miles into the heart of Denali National Park; the Denali River Cabins, top quality hotel and cabin accommodations for Denali National Park visitors; and Kantishna Wilderness Trails, offering day-trips deep into the Kantishna gold mining district of Denali National Park. Doyon Tourism takes unsurpassed pride in all of its tour and hotel accommodations companies in Denali National Park. From the time that you contact us for travel or hotel reservation information, to the point that we greet you at the door, Doyon goes the extra distance to ensure the best quality Denali National Park vacation possible. Doyon Tourism is owned and operated by Alaska Native people of Athabaskan Indian descent. One of the top goals of the company is to provide opportunities for education, training, and employment of our shareholders. Thus, when you call or visit a Doyon Tourism property, you are likely to interact with Native Alaskans. Whether that person is helping you with hotel reservations, greeting you as you check in, driving your bus, or leading your hike, you will find yourself in a unique position to learn more about the history, heritage and cultures of Alaska from someone who was born, raised and educated in the Land of the Midnight Sun! Deep ties to the land, extensive knowledge of the plants and animals, and firsthand information and experiences regarding the challenges and rewards of living for generations in an extreme environment — that is the Doyon difference.

We invite you to Play like an Alaskan amongst the 7 Natural Wonders of the Kenai Peninsula! The Kenai Peninsula Borough is 90% Wilderness and located just south of Anchorage, Alaska. Our panoramic playground is just the place to ‘Spot the locals’~ wildlife in their natural habitat, Sense the Kenai Peninsula Hands On~ sightseeing, get in the Fish Zone, and Celebrate the Wonders of the Kenai Peninsula at our community festivals. Our 7 Natural Wonders provide you the opportunity to ‘Capture the Wonder’ of the Kenai Peninsula with every photo you shoot. We guarantee your photo album will display postcard quality shots. Travelers who include the Kenai Peninsula in their Alaskan itineraries continuously report that their Kenai Peninsula excursion exceeded their expectations. They refer the Kenai Peninsula to their family and friends and return themselves time and time again. Many visitors relocate here and become neighbors with our homesteaders and natives of Russian and Kenaitze descent. Whether you choose to visit during our season of the midnight sun or during the season of the aurora borealis, your excursion to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula 7 Natural Wonders will be an experience of a lifetime. Bring your camera, your spirit of adventure and come Play like an Alaskan, on our Kenai Peninsula!

The Tourism Association of Southwest Tennessee (TAST) is one of nine regional tourism organizations in the State of Tennessee formed for the expressed purpose of developing Southwest Tennessee’s travel industry and marketing the region to the traveling public. TAST serves eight counties with an ever-expanding membership base representing progressive travel related businesses and associations, as well as various levels of government. Counties within the TAST region include Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Madison and McNairy. • TAST is unique. It seeks to represent and speak for the common interest and concerns of Southwest Tennessee’s travel industry both in the marketplace and with government. • TAST does not seek to duplicate the objectives or efforts of local associations or organizations which represent specific industry components. TAST does seek to expand these efforts. • The basic concept of TAST is that we all prosper by working together in a unified effort to promote the eight county region’s natural, historic, and man-made attractions and travel destinations. TAST VISITOR CENTERS The Tourism Association of Southwest Tennessee operates six visitor information stations within our region. The services each offers and there locations are: I-40 Rest Areas Located near the 73 Mile Marker on I-40 (just west of Jackson). Brochures, free state maps, and accommodation discount coupon books available. Anderson’s Fruit Farm Info Center Highway 64, Whiteville. A self-service brochure rack. Casey Jones Village Information Center I-40 Exit 80-A, in Jackson. A self-service brochure and travel information center in the Old Country Store entrance and in the Gazebo. Chickasaw One Stop Hwy. 100 West of Chickasaw State Park in Chester County. A self-service brochure rack. Parker’s Crossroads Log Cabin Information Center I-40 Exit 108 at Parker’s Crossroads. Restrooms, gift shop and self-service brochures and travel information. Convenient to the Parker’s Crossroads Civil War driving tour. The Junction Information Center Located at the junction of Highways 45 and 57, south of Selmer. Provides travel information through a self service brochure rack.

"Land of Winding Waters And Musical Mountains" Placid lakes, waterfalls, quiet woodland trails and spectacular mountain vistas ... the Upper Cumberland is the "somewhere" you've been looking for. It is a place to relax and reflect, to become acquainted with the real Tennessee. Antiques, arts and crafts, festivals, golf, historic sites, shopping, symphony, theater, houseboating, whitewater rafting, hunting and fishing ... there is something for everyone in this scenic center of the state. Come for a weekend, a vacation or the rest of your life to the Upper Cumberland, where natural beauty, Tennessee heritage and genuine Southern hospitality await. The only difficult thing about planning a vacation or weekend getaway to Tennessee's Upper Cumberland Region is choosing from among all the possibilities. Here, in the "Heart of Tennessee's Vacationland", you can hike a mountain trail or visit a historic site, float a scenic river or see a performance at one of rural America's finest theaters, tour a world-class winery or play golf on an award-winning course . . . and the list continues! Day's end might find you at a cozy bed and breakfast, a lakeside or mountaintop retreat, a luxury motel or rustic cabin . . . get the picture? Our web site can help put you in that picture! Use it as a guide to plan your next vacation or weekend getaway. The Upper Cumberland is a great place, too, for family reunions, church and corporate retreats, business meetings and conferences. If you are the meeting planner for your group, we can be your guide as well!