Moratorium on new Chilkoot tours lifted

By Lucy Silbaugh

The Haines Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to rescind a four-year-old moratorium on new commercial tours in the Chilkoot Corridor.

The decision followed a June 30 recommendation from the borough’s Tourism Advisory Board (TAB).

“Retaining the moratorium does not allow for fair competition,” TAB chair Barbara Nettleton wrote in the board’s letter to the assembly, “and it does not allow (…) an entrepreneur to present an idea that could be well suited for…