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Show Information Center Tags Big Visitor Year The rush at the Utah Travel Tra-vel Council will be over for another year Labor Day. But during the past three months, the official visitor information center for Salt Lake City has noted a record re-cord number of visitors. . From Memorial Day to Labor La-bor Day, 44,397 visitors came to Council Hall for information informa-tion on the state and local attractions. And in addition to visitors, 2,241 telephone calls were received from visitors vis-itors asking for information. "The number of visitors has taken a healthy rise from last year," Lee Jorgensen, director of the Utah Travel Council said. "Last ' year, during the same period there were 37,689 visitors at Council Coun-cil Hall wanting information." informa-tion." Visitors to the State Capitol Capi-tol Building, staffed by Capitol Cap-itol Guides from the Travel Council, also saw a healthy increase. This year, nearly 1,000 people per day visited the Capitol Building during the 100 peak visitor days during the summer months. Mr Jorgensen accounted for the rise in visitors t Salt Lcke and the rest i the state by the increase i visitor information cei,ter and the efectiver,s of it, promotional work done I Utah. 111 "It's interesting to no .that during the past loo davs we had visitors from cv'r state in the Union plUs 2 foreign countries come t Council Hall. And mZ foreign visitors usually after Labor Day, so we ex pect to add even more coun tries to the list." Both the State Capitol Building and Council Hall return to normal hours Sen 5, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p. m. Both buildings will be closed to visitors weekends |