All-Time High Of ,
Alaska Visitors
Ffank Whaley. martaging direc
tor of the Alaska Vititors Associa
tion, and AVA board members
feel that Alaska will come in for
a vastly increased share of travel
promotion to boost the number of
1056 Alaska visitors to an all-time
nigh. ' ;
Whaley is in Seattle this week j
arranging for new Alaska folders,
checking over the copy for the
first travel agents manual on Alas- '
ka, national travel publicity and
advertising scheduled for state
ide magazines. The travel agents
manuals are to go to about 2000 !
travel agents and carriers. Press
nformation kits will be sent to
350 newspaper travel editors in
the United States. An article on
Alaska is to appear in the March *
issue of the ASTA Travel News,
official publication of the Ameri
c an Society of Travel Agents.
Whaley said that fund drives in
Alaska t» date are showing' increas
ed support of the rapidly expand
ing Alaska visitor industry which
accounted fy $10 million of Alas
ka bnslness yast year. All drives
are not completed, he pointed out.
A tour by Whaley of the West
coast is planned, where he will
interview travel editors, appear be
fore large groups, and on TV and
radio shows, to create more inter
est in Alaska. His presentation will
cover all points of interest in Alas
ka.
All major carriers are co-operat
ing in Alaska tour promotion this
year and an increased number of
conducted tours of the Territory
are slated by tour agencies. In
quiries and actual Alaska travel
bookings are over 20% greater
than at this time last year accord
ing to Whaley, who recently com
pleted a preliminary study of pros
pective tourist travel in the Terri
tory.
Alaska Source Of
Virus-Fr*e Plaits
Alaska may offer unique oppor
tunities for future nursery enter
prises, says M. F. Babb, Senior
Horticulturist of the Alaska Agri
cultural Experiment Station.
Over 6000 seedlings of market
able age were harvested this year
from nursery beds at the Station.
They represented 200 genera and
55 species of ornamental t;ees and
shrubs, standard and crab apple
stocks, cherries, and such small
fruits as raspberries, currants,
gooseberries, and strawberries. It
was the third harvest made by the
Experiment Station and culminat
ed six years of nursery work.
“That Alaska's climate is suit
able for nursery enterprises is not
surprising,” said Dr. Babb. “High
ly sucessful nurseries in Canada
and other far northern locations
have long been prime sources of
winter hardy stocks of horticultur
al materials. Many of these enter
prises are in far less favorable en
vironments than central and south
eastern Alaska.”
Alaska has a unique advantage
which may lead to an export nur
sery market in the continental
United States, believes Dr. Babb,
Preliminary surveys by horticul
turists, plant pathologists and ento
mologists indicate that Alaska is
relatively free from many of the
common virus diseases and their
insect carriers which now plague
growers the world over.
"If our initial findings are con
firmed by further research, Alaska
may one day be an important
source of virus-free stocks of horti
cultural materials for . the United
States,” said Dr. Babb.
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