Report highlights tourism's economic impact and policy needs for rural development, indicating new opportunities for Extension programming.
Tourism is big business.Foreign and domestic visitors traveling in this country generated $330 billion in tourism revenues in 1988, up from $210 billion in 1983.Tourism, currently the third largest industry in the United States, supported nearly six million jobs in 1988.1 Rural tourism development is seen as so important that a congressionally mandated task force, including 20 federal government agencies, recently completed a report on rural tourism policy needs.Tourism development provides opportunities for integrated issues programming across Extension disciplines.
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