{"id":16792,"date":"2014-07-11T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:03:28","slug":"tourism-exploding-in-some-north-country-towns-invisible-in-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/07\/11\/tourism-exploding-in-some-north-country-towns-invisible-in-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism exploding in some North Country towns, invisible in others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing for more tourism in the North Country with more robust advertisement campaigns. (Photo: NYS)<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been writing a lot recently about tourism in the Adirondacks and the North Country region more broadly.\u00a0\u00a0 What I’m finding is kind of a tale of two cities, or rather two very different types of small town.\u00a0 Some communities in our region are really surfing the tourism wave.\u00a0 Others, not so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re extremely fortunate in the Adirondacks that our principal industry is tourism,\u201d says Lake George Mayor Robert Blais.\u00a0 In his community, tourism is booming so fiercely that they actually have growing pains.\u00a0 They earn more from parking meters than some North Country villages earn from property taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo smokestacks, no getting up in the morning and reading the paper and finding out [the major employer] is going to close in six months. We\u2019re part of the picture I think of the great Adirondack Park where families can come and find so many things to do,” Blais says.<\/div>\n
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Village of Lake George, NY. Photo: reivax<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

But in a detailed article for the Adirondack Explorer magazine, which you can read here in full<\/a>, I found that a lot of the region just isn’t gaining much traction with that “principal industry.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cTourism\u2019s heyday as we have traditionally defined it may be a bygone era,\u201d warned Ernest Hohmeyer, owner of Lake Clear Lodge, who writes about economic issues in the Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the Park\u2019s visitor industry \u201cwill continue to play a dominant role\u201d in hub towns such as Lake George and Old Forge, Hohmeyer and others are convinced that more remote Adirondack villages will struggle to compete. \u201cSome of these communities are so small, their infrastructure is so out of date, and the amenities they offer no longer appeal to today\u2019s visitor,\u201d Hohmeyer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what do you think?\u00a0 Is tourism working in your town?\u00a0 Are you in the industry?\u00a0 If so, what does your community need to do to harness more visitors?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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