Thrifty Travel

CIRI is a long-time minority broadcast, wireless and wireline telecommunications investor. It is one of the nation's leading minority owners of broadcast properties and is a provider of personal communications systems services. CIRI works through a joint venture with T-Mobile USA, which owns more than 36 PCS licenses and offers wireless telephone service in markets throughout the United States, including Seattle, Denver, Indianapolis, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, and Kansas City. The company's Alaska tourism division owns and operates several of the state's leading marine day cruise companies and lodges. These include Kenai Fjords Tours, Prince William Sound Cruises & Tours, the 200-plus room Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge, the 100-plus room Seward Windsong Lodge and the remote Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay.