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Show Tourist Meeting to Discuss Ways For Communities to Hike Profits "How Your Community Can Profit from the Travel Business" will be the theme of the 1962 Travel Institute and annual meet og Utahns, Inc., according to D. James Cannon, director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. A highlight of the day-long meeting, to be held February 26 at the Hotel Utah, will be a noon panel discussion on "Your Community Com-munity and the proposed Can-yonlands Can-yonlands National Park." The panel discussion on the proposed park will be an infor- mational bonus for those attending attend-ing the meeting. The position of the National Park Service and what it has planned for the area, as well as other discussions of wildlife, the natural resources and state lands within the region will be presented. pre-sented. Activities will begin at 8 a.m. with registration. C. J. Olsen, acting president of Utahns, Inc., and member of the Council, will call the meeting to order at 8:55 a.m. Ned Winder, president of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce will give a greeting, after which the first speaker, Dr. Osmond L. Harline, will talk on "Values of the Travel Business to Your Community." Dr. Harline is director di-rector of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Utah. The emphasis on this year's program will be mostly on information in-formation about the state and how individual communities in Utah can give the tourist business busi-ness a shot in the arm. For instance, the first panel. "Forming a Representaive Visitor Visi-tor Committee in Your Commu- nity" will have representatives of motels, petroleum companies, drug firms, colleges, restaurants, federal agencies, etc. The second panel will be entitled en-titled "Accentuate the Positive. Eliminate the Negative in Your Community." The third panel will be the Canyonlands and the fourth will discuss "Where Do We Go From Here?" At 3 p.m. the annual meeting of Utahns, Inc.. will be held. It is an organization of citizens of the state interested in promoting Utah's growing tourist industry. Utah products will be featured as prizes during the one-day institute. |