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Drawing tourists
An analysis of the impact of proposed development in the Moosehead Lake area released this week by Eastern Maine Development Corp. provides many interesting ideas about improving roads, ensuring landfill capacity and worker housing. But the most important aspect of the report is its assessment of the region’s tourism potential and why it has faded [...]
Tourists stop Vacationland slump in 2005
PORTLAND (AP) – Maine’s four-year tourism slump was snapped with an increase in visitors and spending last year despite high gas prices. Figures released Friday by Maine Gov. John Baldacci show the total number of overnight visits to Maine grew by 9 percent, and the total number of overnight vacationers grew by 12 percent in [...]
Tourism taking a hit?
Tourism in the Fredericksburg area is up or down, depending on whom you talk to Tourism in the Fredericksburg area is: A. up B. down C. holding its own. The answer is all of the above–depending upon whom you ask. The number of people visiting Fredericksburg on guided tours, for example, fell from 14,015 in [...]
Four Year Slump Ends With Rise In Tourism Spending In Maine
Figures being released Friday by the Maine tourism office show the total number of overnight trips to the state grew by 9% and the number of overnight vacationers grew by 12% in 2005. All told, those travelers spent more than 3 billion dollars on on meals, lodging, purchases and services. That’s an increase of 15%. [...]
Tourism spending rose in 2005, state reports
Maine’s tourism industry broke out of a four-year slump in 2005 and increased the total number of overnight trips to the state by 9 percent and the number of overnight vacationers by 12 percent, figures being released today show. Taken together, overnight travelers made 9.7 million trips and spent 15 percent more last year than [...]
Seeking attention from, for Colorado
6 advertising firms vying for $19 million account to bring tourists to state. Among the national and local agencies considered by the tourism office is the one that hit the jackpot with “Only in Vegas.” What happens in Colorado stays in Colorado? R&R Partners, the Las Vegas agency responsible for the successful “Only in Vegas” [...]