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Chamber highlights tourism and manufacturing as core sectors, flags tech hub and capital access
Summary
The Vermont Chamber emphasized tourism and manufacturing's economic weight, described aerospace and advanced manufacturing ties, and said the state should leverage a new tech hub and improve access to capital for scaling businesses.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce briefed the Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs Committee on Jan. 15 about the economic role of tourism and manufacturing and the need to support business growth and access to capital.
Chamber leaders gave a snapshot of the visitor economy: "It's about 10% of our workforce, $3,000,000,000 in visitor spending every year, $456,000,000 in tax revenue, and that's from over 13,000,000 visitors annually," Mike O'Sullivan…
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