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National Park Week
This is National Park Week, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced that record visitation in 2016, saw 33 million visitors to America’s 417 National Park Service sites and contributed $35 billion to the U.S. economy. According to the annual peer-reviewed economics report, 2016 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, the strong economic output is attributed to record visitation and visitor spending in “gateway” communities near national park entrances. The report also found visitor spending supported 318,000 jobs . Tennessee ranks tenth in the nation in visitor spending, with $665 million spent by visitors to national parks in the state. That spending supported 10,200 jobs, brought in salaries totaling $320 million and contributed 'value added' income of $540 million, to Tennessee.
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Return to Today's News Stories - Front PageFriday, June 22, 2018
Faison/Fodness debate
I-40 work schedule
Jobless numbers
Trustee Office transfer clarification
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Celebrating Cosby
July 4 travel to be a record breaker
Tarriff talk
Keeping families together
Storytelling at Cades Cove
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Trucks in downtown Newport
Murphy is sentenced
Association Health Plans
Corker and Alexander oppose separating families
Roe talks re-election
Hamblen drownings
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Commercial District approved for West Highway 25/70
Mason ordered to serve 12 years
Douglas Lake boating incident
Rausch appointed TBI head
Monday, June 18, 2018
FSA Committee
U Haul fire on I-40
Suicide is up in Tennessee
Whiskey tarriffs
TVA cutting rebates aimed at energy conservation
Gas prices are dropping slowly
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