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Sweetwater County Travel & Tourism reports nearly $1.5 million in lodging tax, $86 million in visitor spending influenced
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Travel and Tourism CEO Janessa Meredith told commissioners the local lodging tax collected almost $1.5 million in the last fiscal year and that marketing influenced nearly $86 million in visitor spending; a feasibility study on an indoor sports facility is due in April.
Sweetwater County Travel and Tourism reported to the board on Feb. 4 that the local lodging tax for the most recent fiscal year approached $1.5 million and that the organizationused most of that revenue for marketing and event recruitment.
Janessa Meredith, CEO of Sweetwater County Travel and Tourism, said the lodging tax is a 4% tax and is split with 2% statewide and 2% local. "This last fiscal year, it collected almost $1,500,000," Meredith said. She described the local spending plan: about 79% of the board-approved budget goes to marketing…
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