TOURISM MATTERS
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WHY TOURISM MATTERS Tourism is more than just attracting people to a destination. It is a platform that supports significant economic growth and development as it touches and impacts several industries directly and many more indirectly through visitor spending.
More tourism means more tax dollars, which helps launch public projects and development such as improved roads, schools, hospitals, parks and other public spaces. The more a community improves, the more tourism grows.
Tourism brings jobs in a wide range of businesses. What’s great about these different businesses is that they not only pay wages, but they also source goods and products locally, giving a boost to local industry.
In addition to what a tourist spends, the tourism dollars earned, both by businesses and individuals, is reintroduced into the local economy again and again creating a multiplier effect.
The tourism industry allows a community to diversify its sources of income and rely less on a single industry, in effect creating an insurance policy during hard times.
Bringing tourists into a community gives it new life and creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to establish new services and products or facilities that would not be sustainable based on the local Tourism is a source of pride for local communities and allows them to showcase population of residents alone. their history and cultural heritage, which Tourism unquestionably benefits Oshkosh can ultimately help to preserve the history is so many positive ways. This why we of a region that may be at risk of being lost. continually welcome visitors so enthusiastically every year and why we work so hard to ensure they always want to return.